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Ashley 2022-10-14 23:56:26
When Prosecutor Husbands and Lawyers Wife Face Off in Court - Feminism in Post-War Romantic Comedies
As the two masters of Hollywood romantic comedies, Katharine and Spencer are two well-known names, needless to say, but in the movie, the two people are opposite and unified as lovers and rivals, but it is easy to think of another classic romantic comedy The movie "Friday Girl".
In the play, a pair... -
Christophe 2022-10-14 17:57:22
[Film Review] Adam's Rib (1949)
Another battle of wits from Tracy-Hepburn collaborations (their sixth), in Cukor's ADAM'S RIB, they play married lawyers Adam and Amanda Bonner, who respectively becomes the prosecutor and defense lawyer of the trial against Doris Attinger (Holliday, making her strong mark with an affecting...
Extended Reading
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Amanda Bonner: Deep in the heart of South America there thrives today a civilization far older than ours. A people known as the Lorcananos descended from the Amazons. In this vast tribe members of the female sex rule and govern and systematically deny equal rights to the *men* made weak and puny by years of subservience too weak to revolt. And yet how long have we lived in the shadow of a like injustice?
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Adam Bonner: I think the arguments advanced by the Counsel for the defense were sound. Mere sound.
