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Writers:
Ruth Gordon (written by) and
Garson Kanin (written by)
Release Date:
13 June 1952 (USA) more
Tagline:
Together again - and it's no fib, their funniest hit since "Adam's Rib"
Plot:
Pat's a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiance is around. The lady's golf championship... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
What's the most fashionably influential movie of all time?
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 9 September 2009, 4:00 AM, PDT)
Garson Kanin Dies
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 15 March 1999)
User Comments:
The Lady Needs Some Good Handling more (36 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Spencer Tracy | ... | Mike Conovan | |
| Katharine Hepburn | ... | Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton | |
| Aldo Ray | ... | Davie Hucko | |
| William Ching | ... | Collier Weld | |
| Sammy White | ... | Barney Grau | |
| George Mathews | ... | Sylvester 'Spec' Cauley | |
| Gussie Moran | ... | Herself (Sports Star) | |
| Babe Didrikson Zaharias | ... | Herself (Sports Star) | |
| Don Budge | ... | Himself (Sports Star) | |
| Alice Marble | ... | Herself (Sports Star) | |
| Frank Andrew Parker | ... | Himself (Sports Star) (as Frank Parker) | |
| Betty Hicks | ... | Herself (Sports Star) | |
| Beverly Hanson | ... | Herself (Sports Star) | |
| Helen Dettweiler | ... | Herself (Sports Star) | |
| Loring Smith | ... | Mr. E.H. Beminger |
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95 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Of the nine movies she made with Spencer Tracy, this was Katharine Hepburn's favorite. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Mrs. Beminger's lips don't move when we hear her say: "Why, a phonograph!" more
Quotes:
Mike Conovan:
[suspicious] Have another beer?
Davie Hucko:
[inanely] No thanks, no more.
Mike Conovan:
[hollers at Gibby] You see that?
Gibby:
Davie, what're you doin' to me?
Davie Hucko:
Nervous, thirsty!
Mike Conovan:
Water, did you ever hear of water?
[Hucko nods, grinning]
Mike Conovan:
Well, why didn't you drink water?
Davie Hucko:
Um, ashamed.
Mike Conovan:
You're what?
[...]
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Featured in The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) (TV) more
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Pat and Mike must have been a pleasure for Katharine Hepburn to make because she got to show off her athletic ability which was considerable. Had she not decided to pursue a thespian career, Hepburn could have gone into either tennis or golf, she was good at both or any of the other sports named which she actually played. Later on as she entered the ranks of senior citizens, health problems curtailed her athleticism.
But she's having a whale of a good time her and playing with some of the best women athletes of the 20th century.
Hepburn's a college professor who's leading a rather dull life with a rather dull bore of a sweetheart in William Ching, who in a subtle way, belittles her.
In a rather unorthodox way she meets Spencer Tracy, a sports agent who very narrowly treads the line between the legal and the illegal. She makes a believer out of him that you actually can make decent money legally.
The usual Tracy/Hepburn charm is running on all cylinders. Pat and Mike ranks in the upper division of their screen teamings. I'd say that this was more her film than his though.
A lot of familiar faces are in the cast. Look for Charles Bronson playing a hood and Chuck Connors playing a small town sheriff. Both of them make themselves noticed here which led to long careers for the two of them.