Hepburn Tracy Films

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy once again in their fifth out of nine films together. It’s not often that you find chemistry like this on screen and it certainly still remains golden in this film. They star as husband and wife who both work as lawyers. When Adam Bonner (Tracy) takes on a case prosecuting Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) who shot her husband (Tom Ewell) in the shoulder after finding him cheating on her, Bonner’s wife, Amanda (Hepburn) decides to also take on the case, defending Doris.

Though Adam and Amanda try to at first to keep their disagreement professional, it inevitably turns personal. Of course, Amanda’s decision to defend Doris outrages Adam, as he accuses her of only taking on the case to hurt him. Amanda claims this is not true and that she took on the case because she truly believes in Doris’ cause. The two battle, both in the courtroom and in their home, to the very end.

This films breaks all conventions. In a time when women were supposed to be the good ‘housewife,’ cooking and cleaning, while the husband went off to work, Hepburn was out there, not only working, but working the same job her husband. She doesn’t take orders from anyone, actually having the audacity to speak out against her husband.