Adam's Rib

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Adam’s Rib, 1949.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Adam’s Rib, 1949.

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Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda, for the defense) and Spencer Tracy (her husband Adam, prosecuting), with the victim Tom Ewell (as adulterous Attinger), pursuing different angles on the justification for his shooting, by wife Doris (Judy Holliday), in George Cukor's Adam's Rib, 1949.

First scene for the principals, Katharine Hepburn as Amanda and Spencer Tracy as spouse, Adam, awakening in Manhattan to news of the crime committed in the opening, in George Cukor's Adam's Rib, 1949, original screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.

Dueling spouse attorneys Adam (Spencer Tracy) prosecuting and Amanda (Katharine Hepburn), tangling in court over a prospective juror (Roger Davis), Will Wright the judge, explicit feminism from writers Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, in Adam's Rib, 1949.

Katharine Hepburn as defense attorney Amanda, debriefing her client Doris (Judy Holliday) who shot her philandering husband, long take from director George Cukor and heady content from screenwriters Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, in Adam's Rib, 1949.

What amounts to a gritty, Manhattan opening by director George Cukor and writers Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Judy Holliday hunting down husband Tom Ewell and bimbo Jean Hagen, in the 1949 Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn hit, Adam's Rib.

Husband and wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women's rights case in Adam's Rib (1949), directed by George Cukor.