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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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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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'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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Baby, Oh Where Can You Be?
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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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Revealing mistakes: 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.
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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 "Kate & Allie: Bringing Up Charles (#4.8)" (1986)
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I Can't Give You Anything but Love
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What does Susan mean by "I was born on the side of a hill"?Any recommendations for other screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby"?
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Casting Katharine Hepburn in the role she plays her would have been unthinkable years later when her image as a feminist icon was cast in bronze. But she's doing some serious poaching on a young version of the kind of roles Mary Boland or Billie Burke would play. Think of the parts these two women played and you can definitely see Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby if you imagine Boland and Burke years younger.
Bringing Up Baby is one of those beautiful films that really doesn't have a plot. Try to tell someone verbally the plot of this, it cannot be done. From the moment airheaded Kate gets into uptight Cary's car in that parking lot with him chasing her, it's just one madcap situation after another. Howard Hawks directs this film with the appropriate light touch the material requires.
Cary Grant is not the usual suave sophisticate you normally find him cast as either. He's an uptight paleontologist who's biggest thrill up to that point is the arrival of a brontosaurus vertebrae so that he can complete a skeleton. He's also getting married, but the woman he's engaged gives him hints that married life will not be any bed of roses for him. Whether he knows it or not he's ready for the romp Kate has in store for him.
Thirties audiences definitely loved seeing the rich at play. Bringing Up Baby is the definition of escapist entertainment. But one who hasn't the means shouldn't indulge it what Hepburn is doing. They've got a padded cell waiting for anyone who's not rich who indulges in this kind of behavior. Only the rich can afford to be eccentric.
Baby by the way is a tame leopard who Kate's brother sends up from South America. That would be a jaguar by the way, but that's just mere details. Anyway Baby escapes at the same time another leopard from the circus escapes and he's dangerous. I won't go into the confusion there, I couldn't describe it in any event.
May Robson and Charlie Ruggles lend good support. Ruggles who was normally cast against Mary Boland teams up well with May Robson. And my favorite in the supporting cast is Walter Catlett as the small town constable who doesn't know quite what he has on his hands, but is determined to bluff the situation through.