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Adam's Rib (1950)
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There are two great husband-wife teams (one on-screen, the other off) involved in this classic 1949 comedy. Not only do Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy throw comedic sparks as a married team of lawyers on opposing sides of a high-profile case, but their exquisite verbal jousting was scripted by the outstanding team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. Leading all of this stellar talent was director George Cukor at the prime of his career. The result is one of Hollywood's greatest comedy classics, still packing a punch with its sophisticated gender politics. Arguably the best of the Tracy-Hepburn vehicles, Adam's Rib shows the stars at...
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I have seen many Tracy-Hepburn movies over the years, and for the most part I have preferred Katharine Hepburn with Cary Grant, that is until I saw this pre-feminist take on equality in America.
It follows the two as married lawyers who take the opposite sides of a case, she defending a scorned wife who shot but did not...
(complete Adam's Rib review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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