Pat and Mike

Pat and Mike
Pat and Mike
	Theatrical-release poster
Directed by	George Cukor
Screenplay by	Ruth Gordon; Garson Kanin
Produced by	Lawrence Weingarten
Starring	Spencer Tracy; Katharine Hepburn; William Ching; Aldo Ray; Jim Backus; Sammy White; Charles Bronson
Cinematography	William H. Daniels (as William Daniels)
Edited by	George Boemler
Music by	David Raksin
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	June 14, 1952;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,618,000
Box office	$2,696,000

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. Cukor directed The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn, and Cukor, Gordon and Kanin teamed with Hepburn and Tracy again for Adam's Rib (1949). Gordon and Kanin were nominated for the 1952 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for their work on Pat and Mike. (They had been similarly honored for Adam's Rib.)

Hepburn was nominated in the Best Actress category at the 10th Golden Globe Awards, while Ray was nominated for "New Star of the Year".^[2]

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ Aldo Ray