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Adam's Rib (1949)

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• In her early monologue scene with Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday can be seen trembling. This was not acting, but nervousness. The inexperienced Judy Holliday was terrified of performing with Katharine Hepburn.
  
  
• Katharine Hepburn reportedly urged director George Cukor to focus the camera on Judy Holliday during a number of their shared scenes, not only because she was a fan of the new-to-movies Judy Holliday but because it was hoped the studios would see how terrific Judy Holliday was and cast her as the lead in Born Yesterday (1950), the role she'd created on Broadway. (It worked.)
  
  
• The movie's line "Licorice, mmmm. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice." was voted as the #60 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
  
  

• In the scene in which Amanda is driving Adam to work, he tells her: "Oh, you're giving me the Bryn Mawr accent". Bryn Mawr College was Katharine Hepburn's alma mater where she claimed to have gained her distinctive voice.
  
  
• Madge Blake's first film.
  
  
• In the memorable Tracy-Hepburn massage scene, a radio plays Frank Sinatra singing Cole Porter's "Farewell, Amanda," a gift to Amanda Bonner (played by Katharine Hepburn) from her songwriter-neighbor, Kip Lurie (portrayed by David Wayne) who, earlier in the picture, had crooned the ditty, accompanying himself on the Bonners' piano. While Adam Bonner (played by Spencer Tracy) is massaging his wife, he abruptly shuts off the radio. Mr. Sinatra's prerecording of "Farewell, Amanda" is lost. All that remains of his rendition is the partial audio heard behind the Tracy-Hepburn dialogue.
  
  
• Ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Romantic Comedy" in June 2008.
  
  
• Inspired by the real life story of husband and wife lawyers William and Dorothy Whitney, who represented Raymond Massey and his first wife in their divorce, only for the Whitneys to divorce each other and marry the respective Masseys.
  
  

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