Keeper of the Flame (1942);
Adam's Rib (1949)

March 11, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

In-person:

Darryl Hickman.

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Directed by George Cukor

Tracy is an author seeking a commission to write the biography of a recently deceased philanthropist. The subject’s widow, Katharine Hepburn, warms to the idea but is clearly hiding something. The principled stands and mutual respect that the two display as they draw closer together typify the relationship of equals that Tracy and Hepburn enacted in their nine films together.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. Producer: Victor Saville. Based on the novel by I. A. R. Wylie. Screenwriter: Donald Ogden Stewart. Cinematographer: William Daniels. Editor: James E. Newcom. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Darryl Hickman.

16mm, b/w, 100 min.

Adam's Rib (1949)

Directed by George Cukor

George Cukor’s high-spirited comedy, pitting married lawyers against one another in the case of a wife who shot her husband, tests the limits of high-minded equality between the sexes, positing a jungle where it’s every woman for herself. Vis-à-vis Tracy, the whimsical open struggle between “Adam” and “Amanda” again puts modern man’s (exasperated) inner life on display, for which Tracy, the actor, was by now perfectly equipped.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Screenwriter: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Cinematographer: George Folsey. Editor: George Boemler. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne.

35mm, b/w, 101 min.

Part of:

Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing

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Keeper of the Flame (1942); Adam's Rib (1949)

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Adam's Rib (1949)

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Keeper of the Flame (1942);
Adam's Rib (1949)