Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 2
With Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at their effervescent best, Bringing Up Baby is a seamlessly assembled comedy with enduring appeal.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
With Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at their effervescent best, Bringing Up Baby is a seamlessly assembled comedy with enduring appeal.
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a golf outing with his potential benefactors, Huxley is spotted by Susan Vance (Hepburn) who decides that she must have the reserved scientist at all costs.
Feb 18, 1938 Wide
Mar 1, 2005
Turner Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Katharine Hepburn
Susan Vance -
Cary Grant
David Huxley -
Charlie Ruggles
Maj. Horace Applegate -
Barry Fitzgerald
Mr. Gogarty -
May Robson
Aunt Elizabeth -
Ward Bond
Motorcycle Cop -
Walter Catlett
Constable Slocum -
Fritz Feld
Dr. Lehman -
Leona Roberts
Hannah Gogarty -
George Irving
Alexander Peabody -
Tala Birell
Mrs. Lehman -
Asta the Dog
George the Dog -
William Benedict
Caddy -
Billy Bevan
Bartender -
Stanley Blystone
Doorman -
Jack Carson
Roustabout -
D'Arcy Corrigan
Professor La Touche -
Edward Gargan
Zoo Official -
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Geraldine Hall
Maid -
George Humbert
Louis Headwaiter -
Frank Marlowe
Joe -
Jeanne Martel
Cigarette Girl -
Nissa
Baby the Leopard -
Pat O'Malley
Deputy -
Frank M. Thomas
Circus Barker -
Pat West
Mac -
John Kelly
Elmer -
Richard Lane
Circus Manager -
Buster Slaven
Caddy -
Ruth Alder
Dancer -
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Buck Mack
Zoo Officials -
Vernon Walker
Alice Swallow -
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All Critics (39) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (2) | DVD (13)
A perfect example of why directors (and even us brilliant professional critics) can often be completely in the dark about what works.
Top CriticThere is little rhyme or reason to most of the action, but it's all highly palatable.
Though it's almost impossible, try to sit back sometime and enjoy this 1938 Howard Hawks masterpiece not only for its gags, but for the grace of its construction, the assurance of its style, and the richness of its themes.
One of the finest screwball comedies ever.
The speedy, 102-minute film is a total delight, and the performances are so invigorating that it can withstand many multiple viewings without losing its sparks.
If you've never been to the movies, Bringing Up Baby will be all new to you -- a zany-ridden product of the goofy farce school. But who hasn't been to the movies?
Bringing Up Baby's narrative and thematic directions have much in common with those of Shakespearean comedy.
Classic screwball comedy stars Hepburn, Grant.
Grant plays the timid Dr. David Huxley with the proper restraint and tics.
Grant e Hepburn estabelecem uma ótima dinâmica e revelam um impecável timing cômico, mas nem mesmo o ritmo invejável da narrativa consegue ocultar o fato de que algumas de suas principais gags envelheceram mal.
One of the highest high points of the entire screwball comedy genre, with its sharp script and wonderfully balanced leads.
Hard to believe that Hawks' lunatic screwball comedy, with top-notch turns by Grant and Hepburn, was underrated by critics and commercial flop at the time; history proves otherwise.
One of Hollywood's greatest comedies.
The great screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s are polar opposites of today's, which makes revisiting them a joy.
One of those movies that seems to improve upon repeat viewings.
Bringing Up Baby remains an over-appreciated curiosity piece, but the DVD treatment is all-around first rate.
If Hawks had a real gift it was the ability of moving things along.
There are many who make the argument that Bringing Up Baby is a forgotten treasure ... Don't believe a word of it.
Audience Reviews for Bringing Up Baby
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- David Huxley: Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments.
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- Susan Vance: There *is* a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.
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- Aunt Elizabeth: But why are you wearing 'these' clothes?
- David Huxley: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!
- Aunt Elizabeth: Now see here young man, stop this nonsense. What are you doing?
- David Huxley: [exasperated and wearing Susan's negligee] I'm standing in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus!
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- David Huxley: But Susan, you can't climb in a man's bedroom window!
- Susan Vance: I know, it's on the second floor!
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- Aunt Elizabeth: Well who are you?
- David Huxley: I don't know. I'm not quite myself today.
- Aunt Elizabeth: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
- David Huxley: These aren't my clothes.
- Aunt Elizabeth: Well, where are your clothes?
- David Huxley: I've lost my clothes!
- Aunt Elizabeth: But why are you wearing 'these' clothes?
- David Huxley: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!
- Aunt Elizabeth: Now see here young man, stop this nonsense. What are you doing?
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- David Huxley: I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!
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Foreign Titles
- Leoparden küßt man nicht (DE)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) (CA)
