Adam's Rib (1949) | |
| Director(s) | George Cukor |
| Producer(s) | Lawrence Weingarten |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Top Topics | Battle of the Sexes, Courtroom, Husband Wife, Infidelity, Lawyers, Marriage, Romance (Comic) |
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Adam's Rib Overview:
Adam's Rib (1949) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by George Cukor and produced by Lawrence Weingarten.
SYNOPSIS
Tracy and Hepburn at their best as two married lawyers who take opposite sides of a front-page case. District Attorney Tracy heads the prosecution when a pistol-packing blonde goes after her girl-chasing husband and his mistress. But wife Hepburn thinks women should have the right to do exactly what men have done for years - get revenge! So it's Hepburn for the defense in a trial that proves all's fair in love, war, and court.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.Adam's Rib was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992.
Academy Awards 1950 --- Ceremony Number 23 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Writing | Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin | Nominated |
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CMBA Spring Blogathon: "Adam's Rib," or Court and Spark
By David on Apr 14, 2016 From The Man on the Flying TrapezeThis is part of the CMBA Spring Blogathon: Words, Words, Words! Check out all entries! SCENE: Upper middle-class New York City apartment, evening. Wife waits patiently by door. Husband enters. Husband: Hello, thing. Wife: Hello at last. Husband: Well well well. Wife: Well well well what? Hu... Read full article
CMBA Spring Blogathon: "Adam's Rib," or Court and Spark
By David on Apr 14, 2016 From The Man on the Flying TrapezeThis is part of the CMBA Spring Blogathon: Words, Words, Words! Check out all entries! SCENE: Upper middle-class New York City apartment, evening. Wife waits patiently by door. Husband enters. Husband: Hello, thing. Wife: Hello at last. Husband: Well well well. Wife: Well well well what? Hu... Read full article
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Quotes from Adam's Rib
Doris Attinger: Hungry!
Warren Francis Attinger: [to Adam Bonner] Listen, you don't get a split lip from imagination!
Amanda Bonner: No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.
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Facts about Adam's Rib
Katharine Hepburn reportedly urged director George Cukor to focus the camera on Judy Holliday during a number of their shared scenes, not only because she was a fan of the new-to-movies Holliday but because it was hoped the studios would see how terrific Holliday was and cast her as the lead in Born Yesterday, the role she'd created on Broadway. It worked.
When Tom Ewell is walking to his girlfriend's apartment at the beginning of the film, he is whistling "You Are My Lucky Star". This song is also featured in Singin' in the Rain which stars the same actress who plays Tom Ewell's girlfriend, Jean Hagen.
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