Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Woman of the Year, and White Heat.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Woman of the year from 1942, and White heat from 1949.
Woman of the Year is a 1942 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
The film was written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin (with uncredited work on the rewritten ending by John Lee Mahin) and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
The film's plot is about the relationship between Tess Harding—an international affairs correspondent, chosen "Woman of the Year"—and Sam Craig—a sportswriter—who meet, marry, and encounter problems because of her unflinching commitment to her work.
In 1999, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: George Stevens.
Screenplay by: Ring Lardner Jr., and Michael Kanin.
Produced by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn.
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg.
Edited by: Frank Sullivan.
Music by: Franz Waxman.
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Distributed by: Loew's Inc.
Release date: 19 February 1942.
File Length: 114 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1 million.
Box office: $2.7 million (initial release).
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly and Steve Cochran.
Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, White Heat is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is one of the best gangster movies of all time.
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
In 2003, it was added to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress.
Directed by: Raoul Walsh.
Screenplay by: Ivan Goff, and Ben Roberts.
Based on White Heat by : Virginia Kellogg.
Produced by: Louis F. Edelman.
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, and Steve Cochran.
Cinematography: Sidney Hickox.
Edited by: Owen Marks.
Music by: Max Steiner.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release date: 2 September 1949.
File Length: 113 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1 million, or $1,300,000.
Box office: $1.9 million, or $3,483,000.
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