Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib is a 1949 American film in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play married lawyers who take opposing sides on a case in which a woman tries to frighten her adulterous husband, by shooting at him while he is with another woman(during which she does shoot him a few times, but in the film, says that she only attended to frighten him, having no intention to kill or injure her husband). The tension in the courtroom carries over into the legal couple's household.

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1949 - American - Katharine Hepburn - Spencer Tracy - Adulterous

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The film was directed by George Cukor and written by married couple Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon (later to make a name for herself as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby).

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George Cukor - Garson Kanin - Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby

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The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. It has since been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Academy Award - National Film Registry

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