TV Guide: Adam's Rib

Video: Adam's Rib - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:57 -0400

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

Video: Adam's Rib - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:56 -0400

Amanda (Katharine Hepburn) shows the strength of her case, literally, in this scene from George Cukor's Adam's Rib (1949).

Video: Adam's Rib - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:54 -0400

A massage that got a little rough or spousal abuse is the question in this scene from Adam's Rib (1949) with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

Video: Adam's Rib - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:53 -0400

Doris (Judy Holliday) shoots her philandering husband (Tom Ewell) starting the legal case at the center of Adam's Rib (1949).

Video: Adam's Rib (Peter Bogdanovich intro for The Essentials)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:45 -0400

Director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich introduces the classic Hepburn and Tracy comedy Adam's Rib (1949) for TCM's The Essentials.

Video: Adam's Rib

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:33:51 -0400

Screen legends and Academy Award-winners Katherine Hepburn ("On Golden Pond," "The African Queen") and Spencer Tracy ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") are back together for this classic side-splitting romantic comedy as married lawyers who find themselves on the opposite sides of a murder case. Directed by Academy Award-winner George Cukor ("My Fair Lady") and nominated for Best Screenplay. Featuring the premiere of Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday ("Born Yesterday") and David Wayne (TV's "Ellery Queen"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 best American films of all time.

Video: Adam's Rib

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:10:59 -0400

In this comedy, grandmother (Yelena Bogdanova) is mostly paralyzed, and is unable to speak. She is waited on by her daughter Nina (Inna Churikova), a twice-divorced woman in her fifties, who responds reflexively to the bell that summons her. The daughter has two daughters of her own: Lidia (Svetlana Ryabova) is in her twenties, Natashya (Masha Goloubkina), Nina's child by another husband, is in her mid-teens. The three younger women conduct their lives and their love affairs under the silent but watchful eye of the older woman in a small Moscow apartment. On one disastrous evening, Nina's newest boyfriend Evgeny meets her two former husbands, the older granddaughter's new boyfriend proves to be virtually spineless, and the youngest granddaughter announces her pregnancy just before her loutish young boyfriend Misha drunkenly crashes the party. After all the men leave and the agitation they brought with them dissipates, the three younger women are calmly discussing Natashya's options when they hear singing comi

Video: Adam's Rib

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:10:56 -0400

Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully attempted to shoot her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen). Adam argues that the case is open and shut, but Amanda points out that, if the defendant were a man, he'd be set free on the basis of the unwritten law. Thus it is that Adam works on behalf of the prosecution, while Amanda defends the accused woman. The trial turns into a media circus, while the Bonners' home life suffers. Adam's Rib represented the film debuts of New York-based actors Jean Hagen, Tom Ewell, and David Wayne (as Hepburn's erstwhile songwriting suitor), and the return to Hollywood of Judy Holliday after her Born Yesterday triumph. One of the best of the Tracy-Hepburn efforts, it inspired a brief 1973 TV series starring Ken Howard and