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Post by gypsygem81 on Feb 27, 2006 2:56:07 GMT -5
I love this film so much! I watched it last night for about the 100th time. In that scene where they're driving to work and talking about the case, Amanda gets a bit worked up and Adam makes a comment about using her 'Bryn Mawr accent' - I wondered if that was something Spencer brought in himself or if it was in the script. Either way I thought it was very funny and cute.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Feb 27, 2006 7:41:03 GMT -5
Yeah, Spencer ad-libed that. And it is adorable x 10,000!! Then the part when he calls her "Grandma Moses". LOL, Spence, how I loves you. I watched it last night, too, even though it was like 2:00am and I had to wake up at 6:00. Ah well. I went to bed after they made dinnah. Oops, now I gots ta go, teacher yelling at me!! EEk!
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Post by gypsygem81 on Feb 27, 2006 16:09:59 GMT -5
LMAO! Hope you didn't get into too much trouble Amber! I just love this film. I love the way Spencer says 'Bryn Mawr'.
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Post by Judy on Feb 27, 2006 16:23:29 GMT -5
LMAO! Hope you didn't get into too much trouble Amber! I just love this film. I love the way Spencer says 'Bryn Mawr'. Love Gem I stayed up to watch on TCM last night. I need a nap.... Forget Tracy and Hepburn. I want the Bonners apartment! Judy |
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Post by Shaun on Feb 27, 2006 20:02:49 GMT -5
The whole scene where they're driving to work is amazing. I especially love the line where Amanda says "I'm not blaming you personally Adam," to which he says "oh that's awfully large of you."
The Bonner apartment is great isn't it Judy? It's so modern and stylish.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Feb 27, 2006 20:18:29 GMT -5
I love the entire scene when Adam gives Amanda her hat and she's running back and fourth, but when he comes out and goes, "How do I look?" "Oh boy, you look handsome."..."This IS a dress I have on." Musn't forget how adorable they are off-screen.  Her high-pitched squeal is the best noise I've ever heard from a person. I wonder what they were doing.. And the Bonners' apartment is so ultra-chic I wanna move into a luxury apartment with it furnished exactly like that! Steal some of George Cukor's ceramics.. tee-hee. |
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Post by Shaun on Feb 27, 2006 20:53:38 GMT -5
I watched this for the billionth time a few weeks ago and never noticed how cute it was that they both had the same nickname. Aww.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Feb 27, 2006 21:28:04 GMT -5
Yup, " 'y' for him 'ie' for me!"
*smacks forehead* Silly Shaun! ;D
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Post by Sherry on Feb 28, 2006 0:29:55 GMT -5
I love the apartment but I want to look like Kate when she's wearing that gorgeous evening gown that Adam has to help her get into. :-)
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Post by Cate on Feb 28, 2006 1:59:29 GMT -5
Yes!! LOVE that gown. One of the few times she shows her neck/shoulders. I never did get that.
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Post by smith on Feb 28, 2006 5:41:11 GMT -5
Spencer and Katharine never get the credit for how sexy they are in some of their movies . Adam's Rib is one of the few movies of the late 1940's going into the 1950's where you actually believe that they are a couple and you better believe that sexy stuff goes on behind closed doors . Somebody in another group once commented in movies that Kanin wrote there was always at least one scene where Katharine had to remove some of her clothing . In the new book which cannot be mentioned the author tries to argue that Katharine and Spencer had no chemistry in their movies together . I don't think he looked very hard
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Post by gypsygem81 on Feb 28, 2006 6:14:13 GMT -5
What! No chemistry?! Is he blind? Incredulous! Has he seen Woman of the Year!? The scene where they meet in the editors office is just hot all the way! If that's not chemistry, I don't know what is!
But back to Adam's Rib...I just adore all the outfits Kate/Amanda wears in this film. Even the black and white dressing down! She is one smart lady.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Feb 28, 2006 9:59:39 GMT -5
In the new book which cannot be mentioned the author tries to argue that Katharine and Spencer had no chemistry in their movies together . I don't think he looked very hard Um.. EXCUSE ME?? This new author can take a long walk off a short pier. Really, man.  Kate and Spencer had such raw chemistry it's not even funny. I'm so sick of Hollywood - no, actually Hollywood's dead - cranking out 100 films a month just to play the game "my computer is better than your's, so  " The art of the motion picture is gone forever. An actor's job is to read into a script and add their own interpretation and understanding for the audience. Even that's meaningless now. No chemistry? Listen, Kate and Spencer can have more intensity and romance in ONE smoldering look at the beginning of WOTY than most actors can even attempt to create in an entire movie's sex scenes. Sorry, I don't need any sexual acts/other bodily functions shoved in my face to let me know what's going on. Idiots. Sorry for the rant, but nothing's original anymore. And I become Tallulah Bankhead when someone scratches Kate/Spencer. Anyway, howa 'bout that Adam's Rib!  I also really adore the dress Kate wears at the end; she sorta just unpins it and it all flops out off her shoulders. So pretty. |
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Post by stixx on Mar 3, 2006 22:48:03 GMT -5
"And after you shot your husband...how did you feel?" "Hungry!"
What a great movie! Kate and Spence are one HOT couple!
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Post by Hepburner on Oct 9, 2006 2:29:35 GMT -5
This movie really is a classic.
As for that author...what a retard spoon fiend.
I dont know why I threw the spoon bit in. It just came out.
There are so many priceless lines.
Some of you mentioned the drive to work. Which, needless to say, is one of the best acted scenes in history - the chemistry is so obvious here. I mean, to the point where the actors can ad lib such brilliant things as the Bryn Mawr line is absolutely priceless in hollywood. I think people only say that no chemistry thing because they are unrealistic: people want chemistry when there is none, and when the actors actually have a relationship outside their work, and bring that chemistry in, they say there is none. Its ridiculous. If they were never an item offscreen, that author would have said "My God. Tracy & Hepburn...talk about chemistry...whoowah...they never cease to work wonders together...".
Another of my favorite parts is Amanda talking to her secretary.
"A boy sows a wild oat or two the whole world winks. A girl does the same...scandal".
Lest we forget the massage scene. Really quite risque for its time isnt it? But played so respectfully by Hepburn & Tracy, and directed so by Cukor. I love that about old films: even when dealing with something quite risque (such as the examples in the topic about how controversial some of kates films are)...they did it respectfully. Its absolUTEly marvelous.
But oh lord...that massage scene. "I dont know that I care to...exPOSE myself to...TYPical, instinctive masculine bruTALity..and it felt not only as though you meant it, but as though you felt you had a RIGHT to"
and when he yells at her, and walks off..."ADAM! ADAM! PLEASE PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND" - awwww...and he comes back...aww how sweet....KICK!
oh. You know what...I think I might go put it on right now.
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Her high-pitched squeal is the best noise I've ever heard from a person. I wonder what they were doing.. 
Kate and Spencer had such raw chemistry it's not even funny. I'm so sick of Hollywood - no, actually Hollywood's dead - cranking out 100 films a month just to play the game "my computer is better than your's, so 
" The art of the motion picture is gone forever. An actor's job is to read into a script and add their own interpretation and understanding for the audience. Even that's meaningless now. No chemistry? Listen, Kate and Spencer can have more intensity and romance in ONE smoldering look at the beginning of WOTY than most actors can even attempt to create in an entire movie's sex scenes. Sorry, I don't need any sexual acts/other bodily functions shoved in my face to let me know what's going on. Idiots. 
I also really adore the dress Kate wears at the end; she sorta just unpins it and it all flops out off her shoulders. So pretty.
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