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18 February 1938 (USA)
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David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances...
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1 win
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(13 articles)
'Up' and 'Marley & Me' Among Dog Movie Winners
(From Cinematical. 23 November 2009, 1:32 PM, PST)
Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 4 (After Negative Space)
(From The Auteurs. 18 November 2009, 7:36 AM, PST)
(From Cinematical. 23 November 2009, 1:32 PM, PST)
Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 4 (After Negative Space)
(From The Auteurs. 18 November 2009, 7:36 AM, PST)
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Magnificent, joyous japery.
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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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102 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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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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There is no musical score for the film, with the exception of the opening and end titles.
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Continuity: When David and Susan first meet on the golf course, Grant is holding his club in one shot and then not in the next. The caddy behind also goes from holding a club and not in the same shots.
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Prof. LaTouche: Morning, Miss Alice. My watch is...
Alice Swallow: Shh. Dr. Huxley is thinking.
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Prof. LaTouche: Morning, Miss Alice. My watch is...
Alice Swallow: Shh. Dr. Huxley is thinking.
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Referenced in One on One with Vito Russo (2001) (V)
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I Can't Give You Anything but Love
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A Note Regarding SpoilersWhat is the baby's name?
Any recommendations for other screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby"?
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"Bringing Up Baby" is a film I unconditionally love; it is so utterly sublime a comedy that I was truly sighing, awed, 'it can't get better than this...' at many points. Yet it regularly does; Hawks keeps the momentum going majestically; it is one incredibly surreal, bizarre tangent going off unexpectedly into another, at every juncture. He photographs and presents his actors in the most charming and amusing possible ways, and the film is certainly a more leisurely, perfectly pitched film than "His Girl Friday", which I nonetheless admire. There is a beauty in the photography and simple choice of perspectives and angles that matches the
There is not one actress in the annals of film who I adore more than Katharine Hepburn; she is a compelling performer, of great charm, intelligence and wit; of very real, idiosyncratic looks that to this eye are beautiful, vivacious, impish. In "Bringing Up Baby" her Susan Vance is a very interesting diversion from her more usual type of character - the slightly superior, in-control ice maiden, as shown in say "The Philadelphia Story". She is phenomenal in that film, yet here beguiling in a completely different fashion, playing a slightly scatterbrained, sprightly, charmingly delinquent woman, who seems to have no control over anything; least of all her feelings for Grant. Her giddy, breathless exuberance and anarchic helplessness are really endearing; it's a wonderful film that stretches out the credulity of Grant's wonderfully straight-laced character's resistance to Miss Vance. The ending is a gorgeous, satisfying pay-off, as he finally gives way, as would we all! It's a charming, suitable ending that rectifies the slight fall-off of the preceding jail section of the film. That is very amusing, but in a more predictable, slightly laboured way. In stark contrast to the first 70-80 minutes of the film, which amounts to about the finest sustained American comedy I have seen of that length - "Way Out West" and "Duck Soup" being shorter in total.
Cary Grant, truly an institution of a comedic player, is very different to his more remembered persona of later years. It's remarkable to see this absurd little man, bespectacled, unworldly and cutting an orthodox figure played so perfectly by the suave Grant. This is gleefully played on with the sublime scene where Hepburn and Grant are trying to catch the leopard - Kate butterfly net in hand! She accidentally happens to break his glasses and is even more taken with him without them... The tension between how we usually remember Grant and the character he is playing here does add an extra layer of amusement to the film. Need I really add that the rest of the film's company are note perfect? Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald and many more really give the perfectly matched stars a fine backdrop.
I shan't spoil too much of this heady, sublimely silly film... just go and watch it and see Howard Hawks, a master craftsman, at his best - there are no pretensions but making a quite wonderful character comedy - and Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant on insurmountable form. With these delightful stars and anarchic, scintillating comic material, what we have on our hands is an unutterably fine film, one of my very favourites of all time. Where else are you going to get such plot threads running simultaneously as: a hunt for a rare archeological find buried by a dog, an absurd upper-middle-class family dinner and an escaped leopard?
Rating:- *****/*****