tracy as ayn rand

She published her fountainhead in 1940 and this movie is from 1943. and i am sure before fountainhead some other of her books also got published but that's not my point. i am not saying the director portrayed her on purpose but the fact that for me the character of Tracy resembles so much as Ayn Rand - and that too in terms of both positive and negative traits.

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If the film is a portrait of anyone its the Hepburn family (whom Barry knew well) (minus the infidelity subplot)there were all sorts of details with the extended family moving in and out of the house, even the ex husband still hanging around as part of the family was based on Ms Hepburns ex husband....

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are...it is our choices

Katherine Hepburn's character is based on a Philadelphia socialite named Hope Montgomery Scott. From Wikipedia: "Mrs. Scott became a noted figure in the international social scene of the 1920s and 1930s. She danced the Charleston with Josephine Baker in Paris and the foxtrot with the Duke of Windsor at El Morocco. Confident and high-spirited, she is said to have convinced Edward VIII to stand on his head and reveal what was beneath his kilt (long johns), and claimed to have had to fight off the advances of a lecherous Augustus John. On one occasion she seated her dog as a guest at a formal dinner party. Her insouciance was to make her indirectly responsible for James Stewart's only Oscar, Katharine Hepburn's development into a major film star and, it is said, the popularity of "Tracy" as a girl's Christian name."

that you say that '' (ayn rand's)... philosophy is basically one that gives people license to be selfish and heartless....'' indicates to me that you have not personally read any of her books yourself.

and gore vidal 'nailing a philosphy' of anyone but his own?

Rand wasn't all that high-profile at the time of PHILADELPHIA STORY - her novel WE THE LIVING had the misfortune to be published by Macmillan Company in April 1936 - sales were slow, and Macmillan was already heavily focused on their really big book for spring, GONE WITH THE WIND. By the time there was interest in the book, WE THE LIVING's 3000-copy first-printing was not followed by a second printing, and the plates were ultimately destroyed or recycled, so it was out of print by the decade's end. Rand also published ANTHEM around this time, with a much smaller press, I believe, and there weren't many copies of that in circulation, either. Her play NIGHT OF JANUARY 16 did have a successful run on Broadway, closing just as WE THE LIVING was released.

There IS an Ayn Rand/Katharine Hepburn connection, though - if you've got $26572.90 to spare, you can own a copy of WE THE LIVING inscribed by Rand "To Katharine Hepburn, of whom I always think as my 'Kira.' With great admiration. Ayn Rand. August 4, 1936"

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"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified."