Without Love (film)

Without Love is a 1945 romantic comedy film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Lucille Ball.

Katharine Hepburn starred as Jamie Rowan with actor/writer/director Elliott Nugent as Patrick Jamieson, the role Spencer Tracy would take in the film.

Audrey Christie played the Lucille Ball role of Kitty Trimble, and the cast included Royal Beal and Lauren Gilbert.

We said the talking—for the fact of the matter is that "Without Love" is pretty largely a linguacious exercise….one of these conversational dramas in which the action chiefly flows on nimble words, spoken with smooth and saucy savour, and in which feats of little patter abound….

[8] Harrison's Reports observed: “In adapting this from the Theatre Guild's stage play of the same title, the producers have altered the plot considerably; to such an extent, in fact, that the story is unrecognizable.

"[9] Wolcott Gibbs of The New Yorker wrote that the film had been changed significantly from the play but was "a very witty and engaging picture, recommended here without hesitation.