Bringing up Baby (1938) | |
| Director(s) | Howard Hawks |
| Producer(s) | Cliff Reid (associate), Howard Hawks (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Top Topics | Animals, Book-Based, Mistaken Identity, Romance (Comic), Screwball Comedy |
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Bringing up Baby Overview:
Bringing up Baby (1938) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hawks and Cliff Reid.
The film was based on the short story of the same name written by Hagar Wilde published in Collier's Weekly in Apr 10, 1937.
SYNOPSIS
The very definition of screwball comedy, and one of the sharpest, fastest, most out-and-out hilarious movies ever made. A nonstop profusion of comic disasters, coincidences, and misunderstandings ensue when Grant, as an absent-minded, straitlaced zoologist, meets Hepburn, as a flighty, accident-prone heiress. Grant wants a donation to his museum from a wealthy widow but he seems unable to avoid the woman's niece. Soon the two are rampaging through her estate trying to find a lost dinosaur bone, searching for a missing, music-loving pet leopard named Baby, and, inevitably, falling in love. Hawks, the master of many genres, lets the whole thing run riot without ever sacrificing sense.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.Bringing up Baby was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1990.
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) (3)
By Laura Grande on Mar 31, 2014 From Pretty Clever FilmsDirector Howard Hawks had the uncanny ability to take a premise that appeared implausible on paper and weave it into a coherent narrative. Such was the case with his 1938 masterpiece, Bringing Up Baby — a wacky comedy with an outlandish plot, even by screwball standards. Stuffy, socially-awkwa... Read full article
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By Joey on Mar 12, 2014 From Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest“Bringing Up Baby” 4th film in Screwball Comedy classic screened February 11, 2014
By Stephen Reginald on Feb 4, 2014 From Classic Movie Man“Bringing Up Baby” 4th film in Screwball Comedy classic screened February 11, 2014 When: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:30 p.m. Where: The Venue 1550 at the Daystar Center, 1550 S. State Street Today Bringing Up Baby starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant is considered a classic.... Read full article
Bringing Up Baby (1938) (2)
By Beatrice on Nov 16, 2013 From Flickers in TimeBringing Up Baby Directed by Howard Hawks Written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde 1938/USA RKO Radio Pictures Repeat viewing #124 of 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die I enjoyed this quintessential screw-ball comedy even more than before. David (Cary Grant), a very square paleontologist, is en... Read full article
On the set of “Bringing Up Baby” (1938)
By Art on Mar 11, 2013 From Classic Cinema Gold“Bringing Up Baby” is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The movie tells the story of a paleontologist (Cary Grant) winding up in various predicaments involving a woman (Katharine ... Read full article
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Quotes from
David Huxley: Ohhh, if you're gonna wait for her to tell the truth, you'll have a long grey beard -- down to here.
Susan Vance: When they find out who we are, why, they'll let us out.
David Huxley: When they find out who you are, they'll pad the cell.
David Huxley: Well, you don't understand. This is MY car.
Susan Vance: You mean THIS is your car?
David Huxley: Of course.
Susan Vance: Your golf ball? Your car? Is there anyting in the world that doesn't below to you?
David Huxley: Yes, thank heaven, YOU!
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Facts about
Katharine Hepburn had never done any comedy before and had to be trained in gags and timing by Howard Hawks and several veteran vaudevillians he employed solely to train Hepburn. Cary Grant came to the film with his sense of comic timing already impeccably in place.
To build their New England-style home, Howard Hawks wife Slim used the set plans from his film Bringing Up Baby.
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