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Summary: THE BEST COMEDY OF ALL TIME (WHAT ELSE IS NEW?).
Review: "Bringing Up Baby" is a comedy gem in every aspect, because:- The movie stars two of the finest actors of all time: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. - The film was directed by Howard Hawks. - Every single character is great, likeable and unforgettable. - The dialogues are fast, furious and flawless. - The timing in every dialogue and joke is perfect. - "Bringing Up Baby" is packed with hilarious details, situations and characters from beginning to end. "Bringing Up Baby" is definitely an essential classic. Few movies are as good as this one.
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Summary: The best comedy of a lifetime. Perhaps of all time.
Review: "Bringing Up Baby" is one of my all time favorite comedies. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn are perfect in this fast paced slapstick involving a leopard, a difficult dog and a valuable dinosaur bone. Grant and Hepburn are naturally funny together, and in this film it's one hilarious misadventure after another for them. There are added bonuses in this movie with the excellent performaces of May Robson as the rich Aunt Elizabeth, and Charlie Ruggles as Major Horace Applegate. I thought it was especially funny while Major Applegate imitated the leopard's mating cry at the dinner table, the real leopard answered it outside in which Susan explained, "It was probably an echo." I couldn't stop laughing at the scene where Charlie Ruggles tried to put a rope around the wild leopard's neck while calling it like a tame housecat! "Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!" It's a priceless film worth seeing over and over again!
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Summary: The best comedy of a lifetime. Perhaps of all time.
Review: "Bringing Up Baby" is one of my all time favorite comedies. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn are perfect in this fast paced slapstick involving a leopard, a difficult dog and a valuable dinosaur bone. Grant and Hepburn are naturally funny together, and in this film it's one hilarious misadventure after another for them. There are added bonuses in this movie with the excellent performaces of May Robson as the rich Aunt Elizabeth, and Charlie Ruggles as Major Horace Applegate. I thought it was especially funny while Major Applegate imitated the leopard's mating cry at the dinner table, the real leopard answered it outside in which Susan explained, "It was probably an echo." I couldn't stop laughing at the scene where Charlie Ruggles tried to put a rope around the wild leopard's neck while calling it like a tame housecat! "Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!" It's a priceless film worth seeing over and over again!
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Summary: Quaint film showcasing the comedic talents of its two stars
Review: 'Strong Woman' actress Katherine Hepburn may not be associated with the type of role she plays in this film. She plays the ditsy blonde so well it's surprising she wasn't cast in more of these parts, but perhaps it's testament to her acting ability that she managed to be so versatile. Cary Grant is on form as a staid scientist engaged to marry his rather boring research assistant. Katherine Hepburn turns up, all hell breaks loose, and of course Grant ends up falling for Katherine and being ditched by his fiancée. The 'Baby' of the title is a baby leopard and all the animal scenes are handled skilfully and seamlessly by director Howard Hawks. This is a textbook example of how to make charming 1930s comedies and good fun to boot!
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Summary: Quite Possible the Best Screwball Comedy I've Ever Seen
Review: A man hears singing outside his house at night. He comes over to his window, and the girl that was singing calmly explains that she needs to sing in order to get her pet leopard down from his roof. This is the sort of movie Bringing Up Baby is. Hilarious and Very well-Executed. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn have the Epitome of great chemistry. This kind of movie has so much goodness and wholesome-ness in it you want to show it to the world. Reminds me of my friend Harvey, except that this has romance thrown in as well, which is always a plus when with the right actors. It is so absolutely zany that some very great lines become mere throwaways. I would say a few if I wanted to ruin for you a great movie.
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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.
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Summary: Bringing Up Baby
Review: A very unique comedy, as well as excrutiatingly funny! This IS one of my favorite movies ever, and i simply must suggest that you go and rent it. It is sooooo good!
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Summary: lots of fun, but super serious
Review: As one critic put it, Howard Hawk's comedies are his serious films and his serious films are his comedies. Bringing Up Baby, which moves at the speed of light, is Hawk's fastest sounding film. Many people leave this film and are overwhelmed at the sheer pace of the dialogue and find themselves trying to speak at that pace for a day or two. But not many people can motor mouth like Grant and Hepburn and most people don't get caught up in such delirious dilemmas. Grant plays a sterile scientist, stuck in a serious but boring job, engaged to a lemon of a woman who informs him that they'll be no honeymoon after their marriage. Their work is far too important for romance, sex, or the lunatic passions of love. Enter Hepburn on the golf course and within a millisecond she decides Grant is hers and proceeds to take everything that belongs to him, inluding his golf ball, his car, his job and his identity. But he learns to love it, goes through countless humiliations, watches his whole life's work destroyed in front of him by the woman he loves and continues to love her. It's funny, but scary, because it nails down the insanity of passion and illogical progression of love. Susan (Hepburn) sees the world as she chooses and forces David (Grant) to do so, no matter how crazy he knows she is acting. She has liberated him from the world of science, but to what end? All the pieces of his scientific work have to be picked up, if he wants to regain a semblance of self, but can he ever do it with Susan around? Will he care? This beautiful screwball comedy focuses on the battle of the sexes and leads us to other Hawks films of the same theme, especially His Girl Friday and Twentieth Century. Romance is a serious business if it's conducted by adults who find themselves acting like children. Contrast this film with all those musty English drawing room romantic comedies and you'll see what mainline pros like Hawks,Grant and Hepburn do to the genre. They give it ferocious energy that is unmatched.
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Summary: One of the greatest screwball comedies of all time
Review: BRINGING UP BABY hits the ground running and then never lets up. Director Howard Hawks is generally credited with inventing the screwball comedy with TWENTIETH CENTURY. He then went on later to direct two of the greatest screwball comedies every made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY and this film. All these films are remarkable for their frenetic pace, rapid fire, overlapping dialog, and air of surreality. People in these films don't reason like people in the world we know. Labeling it Screwball was merely an accident of history. It could just as easily, and perhaps more accurately, have been described as Cinema of the Absurd. Cary Grant, bearing a strong resemblance to Harold Lloyd, plays David Huxley a.k.a. (by the end of the picture) David Bone a.k.a. Jerry the Nipster. One of the delights of the film is witnessing the way in which this bland, unexciting scientist is gradually pulled deeper and deeper into the life of nutty heiress Katherine Hepburn (Susan). Grant does a great job of portraying someone who is utterly befuddled and way, way over his head. And the helpless way he constantly holds up his finger and opens his mouth, foolishly hoping to get a word or two into the conversation, is wonderful. All things considered, Cary Grant was probably the greatest screwball comedy actor we have ever had. Katherine Hepburn, while arguably our greatest screen actress, is not the greatest screwball actress. That distinction clearly belongs to the incomparable Carole Lombard. But she is probably our second greatest. Absolutely nothing in her prior screen career could have led anyone to suspect that she was capable of a performance like she managed in BRINGING UP BABY. She had made her reputation as a dramatic actress, and as an actress who didn't always guarantee success in a film. In fact, BRINGING UP BABY was one of several box office disasters in which Hepburn appeared, and actually temporarily ended her career. Part of the fault lay with William Randolph Hearst, who hated Hepburn. The Hearst papers consistently criticized her, and labeled her "Box Office Poison." At any rate, the performance is one of Hepburn's greatest, and is probably her greatest comic performance. She was never nuttier or more anarchic than she was in this film. The supporting cast is just stunning, with such stalwarts as Charlie Ruggles and Barry Fitzgerald doing their usual great turn. The most surprising performance (apart from what was, at the time, the amazing revelation that Hepburn excelled in comedy) was by Walter Catlett, who was remarkable as Slocum, the town constable. His "investigation" of the "Leopard Gang" is one of the highlights of the film. His performance meshes precisely with that of Grant and Hepburn. The one thing that has always baffled me about this film is that "Baby," the leopard, is said to have been shipped to Susan from her brother who is in Brazil. The only spotted cat in South America is the jaguar, which is much stockier than a leopard, and as far as I know, not capable of being tamed. Leopards come from Africa. I am not sure why they had Baby coming from Brazil. I believe that there had been no interruption of international shipping in 1938. In THE LADY EVE in 1940, the ocean liner upon which Barbara Stanwyck meets Henry Fonda is sailing from South America. But in 1938, it should have been possible to have a ship come from Africa. Probably, this was just a goof in the script. BRINGING UP BABY may have been the earliest film to use the word "gay" to refer to being effeminate or gay.
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Summary: Bringing Up Baby is a Hilarious Classic
Review: Bringing Up Baby is a hilarious classic. It is fun for the entire family. Grant and Hepburn were made to be in movies together. Their chemistry is alluring and fun. I hope you enjoy this movie as much as I do. Just to prove my point, I am only 24 years old. This movie was made before I was born, and I still love it!
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