The 1949 comedy starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers is Adam's Rib.
George Cukor directed the romantic comedy-drama from a screenplay by married writers Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Tracy plays Adam Bonner, an assistant district attorney, and Hepburn plays Amanda Bonner, a private defense lawyer. They become opposing counsel when Amanda defends a woman accused of shooting her husband after discovering his affair.
The courtroom conflict turns their professional disagreement into a lively debate about gender equality and the double standard applied to men and women. The film was written specifically as a Tracy-Hepburn vehicle and was their sixth movie together, although the pair's off-screen relationship was not a marriage.
Judy Holliday co-stars as Doris Attinger, the accused woman. Common mix-ups include Pat and Mike and Woman of the Year, which also feature Tracy and Hepburn, but neither centers on married lawyers opposing each other in court. The Library of Congress selected Adam's Rib for the National Film Registry in 1992.