Who’s Wearing the Pants in Screwball: Commentary on Adam’s Rib (1949 film)

Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org) founder Aliece Pickett discusses with Edward Schroeder, Who’s Wearing the Pants in Screwball Comedy: Adam’s Rib (1949 film), and Hollywood’s role in pushing forward the government's messaging role for women after World War II. It stars Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Judy Holliday; director George Cukor; and screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Canin.

Sources:
Pursuits of Happiness, The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage, by Stanley Cavell (Harvard, 1981).
Me, Stories of My Life, by Katharine Hepburn (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).
Spencer Tracy, a Biography, by James Curtis (Knopf, 2011).
George Cukor, A Double life, by Patrick McGilligan (St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby” (1928) Jimmy McHugh (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics); performed by Vaughn De Leath (1928).

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