My topic this week for the “Movies” bit on The Chris Vernon Show was “battle of the sexes,” based on this week’s #3 box-office film The Ugly Truth.
With this topic, it was hard not to make the list all movies from the 1940s, hands-down the finest decade for romantic comedies. But after an unavoidable top three that are all among my favorite films of any era or genre, I went fishing for a couple of more modern entries:
1. Adam’s Rib (1949): The best of the Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn pairings. This classic comedy from director George Cukor depicts Tracy (the sly, jovial, unknowingly chauvinistic district attorney) and Hepburn (the sharp, feminist lady lawyer) as married attorneys who take opposite sides in the attempted murder case of a woman (Judy Holliday) who shot her philandering husband, the couple’s work-day opposition ultimately straining their marriage.
