Pat and Mike (1952)
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90% of critics liked it
(21 reviews) -
67% of users liked it
(3,287 ratings)
Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike (Spencer Tracy), a likeable but unscrupulous sports promoter, first attempts to bribe Pat to lose, but later becomes her manager. Pat performs brilliantly until her… More Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike (Spencer Tracy), a likeable but unscrupulous sports promoter, first attempts to bribe Pat to lose, but later becomes her manager. Pat performs brilliantly until her insufferable fiance Collier West (William Ching) shows up; West always manages to make Pat so nervous that she can't win to save her life. At long last, West walks out, having found Pat in a compromising situation with Mike. Though she'd previously kept her distance from Mike, Pat suddenly realizes that she's fallen in love with him and--after a few crooked gamblers are disposed of--Pat and Mike become partners on a permanent basis. Pat & Mike reunited Tracy and Hepburn with their favorite director, George Cukor, and their favorite scenarists, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Watch for real-life golf and tennis champs Gussie Moran, Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker, Betty Hicks, Helen Dettweilerand Beverly Hanson as "themselves" -- and also keep an eye out for ex-ballplayer Chuck Connors, making his acting debut as a highway patrolman. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- George Cukor
- Written By
- Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 13, 1952 Wide
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin here wrote an engaging screenplay about emotion-without-display for their rare uncut diamonds.
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, TIME Magazine
One of the season's gayest comedies.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Tracy is given some choice lines in the script and makes much of them in an easy, throwaway style that lifts the comedy punch.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
One of the better Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn comedies -- not so much for the screenplay by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, which lacks the bite and sophistication of Adam's Rib, as for the relaxed and graceful interplay of the stars.
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Don Druker, Chicago Reader
The best of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn cycle.
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Cast
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Spencer Tracy
as Mike Conovan
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Katharine Hepburn
as Pat Pemberton
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Aldo Ray
as Davie Hucko
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Jim Backus
as Charles Barry
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William Ching
as Collier Weld
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Sammy White
as Barney Grau
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George Mathews
as Spec Cauley
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Chuck Connors
as Police Captain
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Loring Smith
as Mr. Beminger
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Phyllis Povah
as Mrs. Beminger
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Frank Richards
as Sam Garsell
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Owen McGiveney
as Harry MacWade
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Lou Lubin
as Waiter
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Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
as Bus Boy
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Bill Self
as Pat's Caddy
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Gussie Moran
as Herself
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias
as Herself
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Don Budge
as Himself
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Alice Marble
as Herself
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Betty Hicks
as Herself
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Beverly Hanson
as Herself
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Helen Dettweiler
as Sports Star
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Joe Bernard
as Gibby
- Paul Brinegar
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Charles Buchinsky
as Hank Tasling
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Mae Clarke
as Woman Golfer
- Fred Coby
- Frankie Darro
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Kay Deslys
as Shooting Gallery Proprietor
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Helen Eby-Rock
as Woman Golfer
- Pancho Gonzales
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Cameron A. Grant
as Reporter
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Tom Harmon
as Sportscaster
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Sam Hearn
as Lawyer
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Crauford Kent
as Tennis Umpire
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Louis Mason
as Railway Conductor
- Bill McLean
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Franklin Parker
as Himself
- Sam Pierce
- John Close
- Kay English
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King Mojave
as Linesman
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Charlie Murray Jr.
as Line Judge
- Bill Lewin
- Jerry Schumacher
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Hank Weaver
as Commentator
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Russ Clark
as Trooper
- Tom Gibson
- Charles Bronson
