constance blackwood

I think that Adam's Rib or Pat and Mike are considered more classics in the screwball banter category, but Desk Set is a bit later (1957) and their relationship is more mature. She plays the head of the research group for a large TV network, and she is a wonderful boss to her all-female staff of librarians. He's the MIT scientist who's come to install the company's first computer (which is big as a house). The researchers assume that the computer will put them out of work, so it's war between them, with everything culminating in a very boozy office Christmas party. They are both nerdy and brilliant and prickly and perfect for each other.