Bringing Up Baby

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Summary: So Many Fond Memories
Review: I give full credit to a bachelor uncle, Harry Johnson, for the fact that I became a movie buff early in my childhood. Throughout the Great Depression, as he repeatedly explained, he escaped from all the financial hardships by attending the local movie theaters on the South Side of Chicago. One of his all-time favorites is this one. You can thus imagine how thrilled he was when I gave him a VCR one distant Christmas, accompanied by VHSs of this film and It's a Wonderful Life. At Christmas and on his birthday, I gave him VHS versions of other films (e.g. Going My Way, Bells of St. Mary, and The Virginian). Whenever I returned to visit him, we would head for his favorite restaurant in Oak Park (Otto's) for a steak dinner, then return to his apartment to watch a movie. More often than not, this was the one he selected. We would settle back with lavishly buttered popcorn and a cold beer and again become enchanted by Bringing Up Baby.

Directed by Howard Hawks and co-starring Cary Grant (David Huxley) and Katherine Hepburn (Susan Vance), this is the archetypical screwball comedy. While golfing, Susan falls in love with David, a paleontologist. "Baby" is her pet leopard. Any summary of the film's plot cannot begin to suggest what a delightful experience it is to observe her pursuit of him, complicated at one point by mistaken identity (stay with me on this) when Baby is mistaken for another leopard which has escaped from the local zoo. Meanwhile, David (stay with me now) pursues a missing dinosaur bone which he needs inorder to....

Hepburn and Grant are brilliant, as are several members of the supporting cast, notably Charlie Ruggles (Major Horace Applegate), Barry Fitzgerald (Mr. Gogarty), and May Robson (Aunt Elizabeth). So many memorable scenes. Somehow, Hawks and his cast establish and then sustain zaniness at a high level of sophistication. Can it really be 65 years since this film first appeared? How remarkable that it has lost none of its entertainment value since then. None. Today, how much I wish I could see it again with Uncle Harry. He died years ago but I still have all those fond memories. He and they live on in films such as this. While seeing it again recently, I returned in time to Oak Park, to Otto's, and then to sharing it in a small apartment with Uncle Harry.

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Summary: The most perfect movie in history
Review: Undeniably Hawks was no deep like C.T.Dreyer, no epic like Ejzenstein, no original like Bunuel, no intense like Bresson, but this movie is the most perfect i've ever seen...

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Summary: Rip Roaring Fun!
Review: This movie is supposedly the best comedy of all time and I can see why. This movie is hilarious! Grant and Hepburn make a perfect team and deliver both romance and insane humor. What develops between them as they chase Baby, a runaway leopard, will make you laugh out loud. I couldn't stop laughing. This is probably the best comedy of all time. You definately have to see it!

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Summary: Cradle and all...
Review: The ultimate screwball comedy is a deliriously manic film about manic lives. Paleontologist Cary Grant loses a dinosaur bone and in trying to find it gets mixed up with a fast-talking heiress (Katherine Hepburn), a leopard on the loose (named Baby), an explorer (Charlie Ruggles) who can imitate the cry of the loon, and other lunacy-engendering types. In his dramatic films, director Howard Hawks conveyed a deeply felt acceptance of life's chaos; that powerful, implicit attitude made his comedies all the more compelling - and all the more hysterical. A classic today, the film was a financial flop when first released.

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Summary: A hilariously foolish strong-headed woman
Review: This film is both hilarious and savage. Hilarious because when « baby » is a leopard, you're bound to have some problems. It is not very usual to go around New York or any other place with a leopard following you in your steps. It is savage too because the tame leopard is doubled with a real wild dangerous one, even if it does not look that dangerous on the screen. Savage because the heroin is just as wild as wild can be, as wild as any woman can be. She speaks like a machine gun. She interferes with the life of anyone with the lightest insouciance and light-headedness that she can imagine. And she drags the poor hero in some hectic and unbelievably absurd situations. It is considered as one of the best films with Katharine Hepburn and it sure looks like a good film even if it is an old RKO film in black and white and with no special effects. If we want to understand the career of this great lady we have to know this film. And you will enjoy it on top of it all.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

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Summary: What a movie!
Review: Can you believe Bringing up Baby was NOT a box office success! This was made while Ms. Hepburn was still considered box office poison.
Hepburn and Grant are perfectly cast in this hilarious comedy! I don't like to reveal plot lines but let me tell you, if you rent this flick, patiently wait for the plot to unfold - you won't be disappointed.
The stars' professionalism is a wonder to behold. This was the golden age of Hollywood and nothing (overall) in the last few decades of film making has changed my mind.

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Summary: As Light as Air
Review: The best of the screwball comedies. Katharine Hepburn is gorgeous, the epitome of the beautiful young woman high on life and its possibilities. Cary Grant is handsome even with his glasses on and just the perfect match for Kate as the too serious young man who starts to live when he meets her. Wonderful supporting cast and funny dialogue that keeps you on your toes. This movie makes you laugh out loud and feel very good after you've spent two hours with Baby and friends.

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Summary: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant: Bringing Up Baby
Review: In 1938, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant came together to make this great movie: Bringing Up Baby. This is one of the best Katharine Hepburn movie there is. It is my favorite. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant play two very important roles in this slap-stick comedy.

Susan vance (Katharine Hepburn) meets her man, David Huxley (Cary Grant). Her only thought is to be with him. He would probably go to her (I don't know who wouldn't) except that he is going to get married the day after Susan meets him. She does everything she can to stay ewith him but he keeps going....until she gets a pet leoperd.Susan ends up with a leoperd, Baby, from her brother Mark that is for Susan's aunt. Susan doesn't know any of this but she gets David and they take Baby to susan's farm where her aunt is staying. They end up chasing the leoperd all through Conneticut. They chase it the point of being put in jail.

Katharine Hepburn and Cary grant really showed their talent in this great movie. They really make you laugh in this one; to the point of rolling on the floor (I don't know how they did it with a straight face). I greatly encourage you to get this movie. It's one everybody needs. You can't watch this one more than once. You will Love it!!

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Summary: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at Their Best
Review: This is the best comedy of all with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant!

Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) plays a hilarious girl who meets David Huxley (Cary Grant). David is a scientist working on a dinosaur. Mrs. Random(Sunan's aunt) might donate a million dollars to the musuem where the dinosaur is. David really want it but then meets Susan. She gets a leopard: Baby. She tells David that she can use his help but really just wants to be with him. Together they keep getting Baby and loosing Baby to the point of getting put in jail.

The movie is so funny; it will have you rolling on the floor the whole way through. This is the best Katharine Hepburn movie ever(I've seen quite a few); it's my all-time favorite. This is a great family movie and I know you'll enjoy it!

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Summary: "The love impulse in man..."
Review: A side-splitting farce about stuffy zoologist Grant and his confrontations with madcap heiress Hepburn. As the psychiatrist
says in this picture, "The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.", and he couldn't have been more right. Grant and Hepburn team up in this film for the third, but not the last time and the result is hilarious! This is a great picture with Hepburn inadvertently(?)making a shambles of Grant's life and somewhere along the way they end up falling in love. The help of a marvelous supporting side cast: a pompous big game hunter, a wealthy aunt giving away a million dollars to the most likely candidate, and a leopard named Baby sent to Hepburn from her brother Mark who lives in Brazil are what makes the film come together. AQ hilarious movie that I highly recommend.