Category: Adam’s Rib

  • Adam’s Rib (1949, George Cukor)

    Very smart comedy about married lawyers Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. She’s the crusading progressive, he’s the assistant D.A. Usually they’re just adorable together but then Hepburn defends a wife on an attempted murder rap–the wife (a phenomenal Judy Holliday) shot her cheating husband. And of course D.A. Tracy’s the prospector; martial courtroom warfare ensues.…