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Adam's Rib is a 1949 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who come to oppose each other in court.
- Polly Moran
Career. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moran started in...
- Emerson Treacy
Treacy played in dozens of other feature films, including...
- Clarence Kolb
Biography Kolb (left) and Max Dill. Kolb started out as one...
- Polly Moran
Adam's Rib: Directed by George Cukor. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell. Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
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- Comedy, Romance
- George Cukor
- 1949-11-17
The battle of the sexes spilled over into the courtroom in 1949, when Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn played husband-and-wife attorneys on opposite sides of an explosive case in their sixth film together - Adam's Rib (1949). For all the courtroom shenanigans as Hepburn tries to prove the sexes equal as a matter of law, the film offers a ...
- George Cukor, Jack Greenwood
- Spencer Tracy
Adam's Rib (1949) is director George Cukor's most famous film of the battle of the sexes - between two married lawyers. The Oscar-nominated screenplay (originally titled Man and Wife) for the sparkling, MGM classic (screwball) comedy of the post-war years was way ahead of its time.
Adam’s Rib, American romantic comedy film, directed by George Cukor and released in 1949, that was a vehicle for the powerhouse pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in a classic battle of the sexes.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Adam's Rib (1949) by Ruth Gordon (screenplay) and Garson Kanin (screenplay) is a Romantic Comedy about a trial of a scorned housewife who shoots her cheating husband and the happily married attorneys who contentiously represent both of them.
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“Adam’s Rib,” about a husband and wife as lawyers on opposite sides of a court case, is often billed as the definitive ‘battle of the sexes’ film. It’s much better seen as an artfully crooked portrait of a symbiotic marriage.
