Pat and Mike
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90% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Romance, Sport Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Initial DVD release September 19, 2000 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 14, 1952 (1952-06-14) Cast (Mike Conovan), (Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton), (Davie Hucko), (Collier Weld), (Barney Grau), (Sylvester 'Spec' Cauley) Similar movies Pulp Fiction , Toy Story , Raging Bull , Rocky , Bull Durham , Foxcatcher Tagline Together again - and it's no fib, their funniest hit since "Adam's Rib" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pat and mike 1952 spencer tracy katharine hepburn
Pat and Mike is a 1952 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The movie was written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn, and Adam's Rib (1949) with Hepburn and Tracy.
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- Pat and mike 1952 spencer tracy katharine hepburn
- Pat and mike official trailer 1 spencer tracy movie 1952 hd
- Plot
- Cast
- Production and filming
- Music
- Reception
- References
Pat and mike official trailer 1 spencer tracy movie 1952 hd
Plot
Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) is a brilliant athlete who loses her confidence whenever her charming but overbearing fiancé Collier (William Ching) is around. Ladies golf and tennis championships are within her reach, however she gets flustered by his presence at the contests. He wants her to give up her goal and marry him, but Pat does not give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy), a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer (Aldo Ray), and a growing mutual attraction.
Cast
Sports Stars
Production and filming
Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon were friends with Hepburn and Tracy, and had the idea of writing a film to showcase Hepburn's athletic abilities. She was an avid golfer and tennis player, and indeed performed all the sports footage in the film herself.
Pat and Mike was filmed partly on location in California. The golfing scenes were filmed at the Riviera Country Club and Ojai Valley Inn. Tennis scenes were filmed at the Cow Palace in Daly City, near San Francisco. The opening scenes were filmed at Occidental College, standing in as fictional Pacific Technical College.
Many notable athletes appear in cameo roles as themselves in the film, including golfers Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Betty Hicks, and Helen Dettweiler, and tennis champions Don Budge, Gussie Moran and Alice Marble. Other notables in the cast include Charles Bronson (credited as Charles Buchinski) in his second credited movie role, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Jim Backus, and, in his acting debut, former athlete Chuck Connors, later known as the star of The Rifleman television series.
Music
The score for the film was composed and conducted by David Raksin, with orchestrations by Robert Franklyn and Ruby Raksin. Of his music, Raksin said "My music was sly and a mite jazzy, and despite the fact that everyone seemed to like it, so did I."
The complete score was issued on CD in 2009, on Film Score Monthly records.
Reception
According to MGM records the film earned $2,050,000 in the US and Canada and $646,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $74,000.
References
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