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Budget. $1,728,000 [2] Box office. $3,947,000 [2] 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.
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
Adam's Rib (1949) 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. It was written by the husband-wife team of ...
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Nov 9, 2021 · One likely reason that Adam’s Rib tackles the double standards women face more effectively than Woman of the Year (and most classic movies in general) is that it was co-written by a woman. Ruth ...
- Colin Wessman
Lee Pfeiffer. 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. The plot involves a husband and wife (played by Tracy and Hepburn) who are lawyers on.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Adam’s Rib. By David Ehrenstein. Nov 17, 1986. T he best of all the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn comedies, Adam’s Rib is as fresh and topical today as it was in 1949 when it was first released. Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor, this satirical farce about a pair of married lawyers who find themselves on ...
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. Themes of sexism, male-female equality, marital fidelity, protecting the home, and justifiable assault ...
