Bringing Up Baby

"And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!"

1938 1h 42m EN

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★7.5TMDB · 1,125

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Synopsis

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David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

“And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!”

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Cast

Katharine Hepburn
Susan
Cary Grant
David
Charles Ruggles
Major Applegate
Walter Catlett
Slocum
Barry Fitzgerald
Mr. Gogarty
May Robson
Aunt Elizabeth
Fritz Feld
Dr. Lehman
Leona Roberts
Mrs. Gogarty

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, Hagar Wilde
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $1.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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88 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Howard Hawks, shot by Russell Metty. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Roy Webb. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor George Hively shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and Charles Ruggles carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0029947 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Howard Hawks directs. Russell Metty behind the camera. Roy Webb scores. George Hively cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $1.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
288 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Directed by Howard Hawks, shot by Russell Metty. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Roy Webb. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor George Hively shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and Charles Ruggles carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!".
8IMDB entry: tt0029947 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 14 themes, including "prison", "donation", "museum", "zoo".
10Released under 47 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Russell Metty
Original score: Roy Webb
Editing: George Hively
Costume design: Howard Greer
Makeup / hair: Mel Berns
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,073,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Bringing Up Baby (1938)

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daniel white2016-03-20
A flop when it was first released in 1938 "Bringing up Baby" is now considered a classic in the screwball genre, a tribute it rightly deserves. Katharine Hepburn has never been funnier in her only foray into this type of zany comedy. And Cary Grant a master of both verbal repartee and skillful pratfalls is pure genius. The plot is both simple and yet defies description. Hepburn plays Susan Vance, a rich society gal who is a beautiful kook determined to land Cary Grant a stuffy paleontologist who is desperately in need of being set free from from his stodgy ways. That Kate does so and much more is the main thrust of the movie. From their first meeting on a golf course to their final declaration of love atop a set of dinosaur bones the picture is nonstop glorious insanity. The script is the apex of wit and director Howard Hawks keeps the pace up at a breakneck speed. I first saw the film as a young boy and was captivated by it. Hardly a year goes by when I have an insatiable urge to enter this upside down world and join in this gleeful romp where leopards run amok in Connecticut,Grant is forced to wear a negligee and Miss Hepburn creates a female heroine that is the epitome of beauty daffy shrewd insanity. Please do yourself a favor and enter this topsy turvy world.
CinemaSerf2022-06-20
★ 7/10
God, I'm knackered.... The sheer pace of this frenetic comedy romance left me breathless without actually leaving my chair (except to turn up the oxygen!). Cary Grant is a typically inept dinosaur man who is just about to install the final bone in his magnificent skeleton of a something-o-saur and get married on the same day... Firstly though, he has to try and tap up the lawyer to a local bigwig for a $1m donation to his museum by playing golf - that's where he meets a feisty, flighty Katherine Hepburn and soon his ordered life has been thrown under the bus then reversed over... When he discovers that she has a pet leopard "Baby" - it all descends into chaos for them, and their community!. The two stars are in their element and their enjoyment is contagious. The dialogue flows like Niagara falls and there is ample (predictable) fun to be had throughout this enjoyable farce of a story. The yapping dog did get on my nerves after a while, I have to say, and the visual aspects of the comedy are much too slapstick to be appreciated well 80 years on, especially towards the end - but it's a joyous romp for two stars the like of whom we simply won't ever see again.
Lucas Firmo2023-01-05
★ 10/10
Absolutely fantastic, best comedy ever because it's timeless