Editing Adam's Rib (section)

==Production==
[[File:Adams rib trailer.png|thumb|Advertising for the film focused on its 'battle of the sexes' theme.]]
The screenplay was written specifically as a Tracy-Hepburn vehicle (their sixth film together) by [[Garson Kanin]] and actress [[Ruth Gordon]], married script writers who were friends of the couple. Kanin claimed that Judy Holliday initially declined her role because her character is called "fatso" in the script.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/15824/adams-rib#notes|title=Adam's Rib (1949) - Notes - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies|language=en|access-date=April 29, 2022}}</ref> According to Kanin, the story of ''Adam's Rib'' was based on the lives of Gordon's friends Dorothy and William Dwight Whitney, and of actor [[Raymond Massey]].<ref name=":0" /> The Whitneys were married lawyers who represented opposing sides in Massey's high-profile divorce from actress [[Adrianne Allen|Adrienne Allen]] before pursuing their own divorce in order to marry their clients from the Massey case.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/20/obituaries/adrianne-allen-86-a-british-specialist-in-light-comedies.html|title=Adrianne Allen, 86, A British Specialist In Light Comedies|last=Pace|first=Eric|date=1993-09-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-01-27|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Kanin and Gordon saw great potential in the idea of married lawyers as adversaries, and the plot for ''Adam's Rib'' was developed. Other titles for the film were ''Love is Legal'' and ''Man and Wife''.<ref name=":0" /> The MGM front office quickly vetoed the latter as dangerously indiscreet.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kanin|first=Garson|title=Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir|url=https://archive.org/details/tracyhepburnint00kani|url-access=registration|year=1971|publisher=Viking|location=New York|isbn=0-670-72293-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/tracyhepburnint00kani/page/154 154–155]}}</ref>

Kanin also recalled that Cole Porter refused to write a song for Madelaine, as Hepburn's character was originally named, but proceeded when the character's name was changed to Amanda. The change allowed Porter to quickly revise a tune he had written during his 1940 adventure in the South Pacific and later discarded as mediocre — "So Long, Samoa."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cole Porter / Miscellaneous Songs |url=https://www.sondheimguide.com/porter/miscsongs.html |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=www.sondheimguide.com}}</ref> In June 1949, ''Hollywood Reporter'' wrote that Porter and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] agreed to donate all profits from the song, rechristened "Farewell, Amanda," to the [[Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation|Runyon Cancer Fund]].

Although set in New York, ''Adam's Rib'' was filmed mainly on MGM's stages in [[Culver City]], California.<ref>[http://www.movie-locations.com/films.html The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations by Tony Reeves]. The Titan Publishing Group. p. 12  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150625062004/http://www.movie-locations.com/films.html |date=June 25, 2015 }}</ref> However, location shooting occurred in various parts of New York City, including at the Women's House of Detention where Doris Attinger is imprisoned after shooting her husband, and at Gordon and Kanin's farm in Connecticut.<ref name=":0" />

Hepburn and Kanin encouraged Judy Holliday to play the role of Doris, and [[Columbia Pictures]] president [[Harry Cohn]] considered her performance a screen test for the lead role in the planned film adaptation of Kanin's play ''[[Born Yesterday (play)|Born Yesterday]],'' in which Holliday had starred during its Broadway run. Receiving positive notices for ''Adam's Rib'', Holliday was cast in the ''[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]'' film, for which she won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].<ref name=":0" />