Adam's Rib
(1949)
Synopsis
Battle-of-the-sexes comedy in which the marriage between husband-and-wife lawyers reaches a breaking point when they become courtroom rivals in the attempted-murder case of a Brooklyn woman who tried to kill her philandering husband and his mistress. Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.
Directors
George Cukor, Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon, Miklós Rózsa, Henry Grace, Cedric Gibbons
Production year
1949
Rating
TV-G
Studio
Warner Bros.
Runtime
101 minutes
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne