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Overview

User Rating:
8.1/10   20,773 votes
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Director:
Howard Hawks
Writers:
Dudley Nichols (screenplay) &
Hagar Wilde (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
18 February 1938 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
Great Films: Bringing Up Baby
 (From SoundOnSight. 29 June 2009, 12:14 PM, PDT)

Meeting Mr. or Ms. Wrong
 (From IFC. 26 May 2009, 7:23 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Arguably the funniest movie ever made more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Katharine Hepburn ... Susan Vance

Cary Grant ... Dr. David Huxley
Charles Ruggles ... Maj. Horace Applegate (as Charlie Ruggles)
Walter Catlett ... Constable Slocum
Barry Fitzgerald ... Aloysius Gogarty
May Robson ... Aunt Elizabeth Random
Fritz Feld ... Dr. Fritz Lehman
Leona Roberts ... Hannah Gogarty

George Irving ... Alexander Peabody
Tala Birell ... Mrs. Lehman
Virginia Walker ... Alice Swallow
John Kelly ... Elmer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Certification:
UK:U | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:S | Germany:12 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #3752) | Argentina:Atp | Portugal:M/6 (DVD rating)

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Trivia:
Howard Hawks said that he failed at making a good comedy here because of the characters were too "madcap", with no straight men/women to ground it. This comment may have resulted from his disappointment at the film's commercial failure at the time of its release, although many now consider it Hawks' best film. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: Gogarty and Maj. Horace Applegate come across the leopard, and Applegate says, "Personally, Gogarty, I think you're a liar!" They start to run away from the leopard, when suddenly part of the leopard's head is transparent. You can see right through to the wall. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Prof. LaTouche: Morning, Miss Alice. My watch is...
Alice Swallow: Shh. Dr. Huxley is thinking.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Andy Griffith Show: Bringing Up Opie (#1.32)" (1961) more
Soundtrack:
I Can't Give You Anything but Love more

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Any recommendations for other screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby"?
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40 out of 54 people found the following comment useful:-
Arguably the funniest movie ever made, 17 December 2004
10/10
Author: inframan from the lower depths

They certainly don't come any funnier than this film. The hilarious golf course scene at the beginning is followed immediately by the equally riotous nightclub scene. This is followed by more memorable set pieces & quotable stick-in-your-mind-forever lines than any movie I can think of, including Bank Dick & Night at the Opera.

Grant & Hepburn are brilliant & innovative. I read some place that when Cary Grant was having trouble finding the David character, Howard Hawks gave him the horn rims & told him to do Harold Lloyd. Which he does. Brilliantly.

I can watch this repeatedly with no more flagging interest than listening to a Beethoven symphony or sonata.

Hard to believe it was a big flop when it first came out.

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