Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib

1949 | 1h 44m | Drama, Comedy | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

George Cukor

CAST

Spencer Tracy

Katharine Hepburn

Judy Holliday

Tom Ewell

Jean Hagen

David Wayne

PRODUCERS

Lawrence Weingarten

WRITERS

Ruth Gordon

Garson Kanin

Host Intros

01:41
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Adam's Rib (1949)
Intro Aired: Feb 2016
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Adams Rib, 1949.
01:37
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Adam's Rib (1949)
Intro Aired: Oct 2015
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Adams Rib, 1949.

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Trailblazing Women: Adam's Rib
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Adam's Rib (1949) -- (Movie Clip) She Got Fatter
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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.
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Adam's Rib (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Little In Spirit
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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.
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Adam's Rib (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Equal Rights For Women
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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.
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Adam's Rib (1949) -- (Movie Clip) It's Not Feminine
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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.
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Adam's Rib (1949) -- (Movie Clip) My Dear Husband
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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.
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Adam's Rib - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
Husband and wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women's rights case in Adam's Rib (1949), directed by George Cukor.

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