{"id":512,"date":"2008-03-04T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/512"},"modified":"2008-03-04T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:35:05","slug":"adams-rib-1949-george-cukor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/512","title":{"rendered":"Adam&#8217;s Rib (1949, George Cukor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-written by Maude.  Maude!<\/p>\n<p>Husband and wife lawyers defend opposite sides in a legal case of husband vs. wife.  Both relationships get pretty rocky during the case.  Good movie, and funny, but not a wacky romantic comedy like the DVD box would have you believe.<\/p>\n<p>Judy Holliday is Doris, who shot her husband.  She was great in this, later starred in <em>Born Yesterday<\/em> and <em>It Should Happen To You<\/em> before her career died thanks to meddling by the junior senator from wisconsin.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/adamsrib1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Hepburn &#038; Tracy.  IMDB calls this Hepburn&#8217;s last performance before she moved into &#8220;middle-aged spinster roles.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/adamsrib2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Tracy, 13 years after <em>Fury<\/em> and still a bad-ass.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/adamsrib3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Tom Ewell (<em>The Seven Year Itch<\/em>, <em>American Guerrilla in the Philippines<\/em>) is Warren the wounded husband<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/adamsrib4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Hepburn with David Wayne as Kip, their obnoxious musician neighbor.  He&#8217;s sort of an annoying Donald O&#8217;Connor.  What a sorry choice to play Peter Lorre&#8217;s character in the remake of <em>M<\/em> two years later.  Also appeared in <em>Hell and High Water<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve seen twice but I still don&#8217;t remember him in it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/adamsrib5.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Jean Hagen as the other woman.  She played the comically terrible silent film actress in <em>Singin&#8217; in the Rain<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/adamsrib6.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-written by Maude. Maude! Husband and wife lawyers defend opposite sides in a legal case of husband vs. wife. Both relationships get pretty rocky during the case. Good movie, and funny, but not a wacky romantic comedy like the DVD box would have you believe. Judy Holliday is Doris, who shot her husband. She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,83,82],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-comedy","tag-katharine-hepburn","tag-spencer-tracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}