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Bringing Up Baby

  • 1938
  • Passed
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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Comedy

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

  • Director
    • Howard Hawks
  • Writers
    • Dudley Nichols
    • Hagar Wilde
  • Stars
    • Katharine Hepburn
    • Cary Grant
    • Charles Ruggles
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    64K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Howard Hawks
    • Writers
      • Dudley Nichols
      • Hagar Wilde
    • Stars
      • Katharine Hepburn
      • Cary Grant
      • Charles Ruggles
    • 325User reviews
    • 114Critic reviews
    • 91Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins

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    Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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    Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Nissa the Leopard in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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    Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn
    • Susan Vance
    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • David Huxley
    Charles Ruggles
    Charles Ruggles
    • Major Applegate
    • (as Charlie Ruggles)
    Walter Catlett
    Walter Catlett
    • Slocum
    Barry Fitzgerald
    Barry Fitzgerald
    • Aloysius Gogarty
    May Robson
    May Robson
    • Aunt Elizabeth
    Fritz Feld
    Fritz Feld
    • Dr. Lehman
    Leona Roberts
    Leona Roberts
    • Mrs. Gogarty
    George Irving
    George Irving
    • Alexander Peabody
    Tala Birell
    Tala Birell
    • Mrs. Lehman
    Virginia Walker
    • Alice Swallow
    John Kelly
    John Kelly
    • Elmer
    Ruth Adler
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Adeline Ashbury
    • Mrs. Peabody
    • (uncredited)
    Asta
    Asta
    • George the Dog
    • (uncredited)
    William 'Billy' Benedict
    William 'Billy' Benedict
    • David's Caddy
    • (uncredited)
    Billy Bevan
    Billy Bevan
    • Joe - Bartender
    • (uncredited)
    Stanley Blystone
    Stanley Blystone
    • Doorman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Howard Hawks
    • Writers
      • Dudley Nichols
      • Hagar Wilde
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The scene in which Susan's dress is ripped was inspired by something that happened to Cary Grant. He was at the Roxy Theater one night and his pants zipper was down when it caught on the back of a woman's dress. Grant impulsively followed her. When he told this story to Howard Hawks, Hawks loved it and put it into the film.
    • Goofs
      When Susan follows Fritz into the house, the shadow of the boom mic can be seen against the wall of the house.
    • Quotes

      Mrs. Random: Well who are you?

      David Huxley: I don't know. I'm not quite myself today.

      Mrs. Random: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.

      David Huxley: These aren't *my* clothes.

      Mrs. Random: Well, where *are* your clothes?

      David Huxley: I've *lost* my clothes!

      Mrs. Random: But why are you wearing *these* clothes?

      David Huxley: Because I just went *GAY* all of a sudden!

      Mrs. Random: Now see here young man, stop this nonsense. What are you doing?

      David Huxley: I'm sitting in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus.

    • Alternate versions
      Some scenes were cut for the German theatrical release. In 1992 the German ZDF TV reconstructed the missing scenes but the German voice actors/actress who dubbed the movie were no longer available. Thus the reconstructed version changes between the existing dubbed scenes and English-speaking scenes with German subtitles. However, the additional scenes are also from a different print, resulting in a much lesser contrast.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970)
    • Soundtracks
      I Can't Give You Anything but Love
      (1928) (uncredited)

      Words by Dorothy Fields

      Music by Jimmy McHugh

      Played as background music very often throughout the film

      Sung a cappella by Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant

    User reviews325

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    9/10
    Baby, Oh Where Can You Be?
    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.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 18, 1938 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Leoparden küßt man nicht
    • Filming locations
      • Arthur Ranch, Malibu, California, USA(Exterior)
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $1,073,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $11,180
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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