And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Bringing Up Baby (1938) is a comedy and romance film directed by Howard Hawks, released on February 18, 1938 with a runtime of 1h 42m. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles and Walter Catlett. Viewers rate it 7.5 out of 10 across 1,115 ratings.
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Katharine Hepburn
as Susan
Cary Grant
as David
Charles Ruggles
as Major Applegate
Walter Catlett
as Slocum
Barry Fitzgerald
as Mr. Gogarty
May Robson
as Aunt Elizabeth
Fritz Feld
as Dr. Lehman
Leona Roberts
as Mrs. Gogarty
George Irving
as Mr. Peabody
Tala Birell
as Mrs. Lehman
Virginia Walker
as Alice Swallow
John Kelly
as Elmer
Directed by Howard Hawks, written by Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde and Hagar Wilde, produced by Howard Hawks.
Average viewer score of 7.5/10 from 1,115 ratings.
A flop when it was first released in 1938 "Bringing up Baby" is now considered a classic in the screwball genre, a tribute it rightly deserves. Katharine Hepburn has never been funnier in her only foray into this type of zany comedy. And Cary Grant a master of both verbal repartee and skillful pratfalls is pure genius. The plot is both simple and yet defies description. Hepburn plays Susan Vance, a rich society gal…
Reviewed on March 20, 2016
God, I'm knackered.... The sheer pace of this frenetic comedy romance left me breathless without actually leaving my chair (except to turn up the oxygen!). Cary Grant is a typically inept dinosaur man who is just about to install the final bone in his magnificent skeleton of a something-o-saur and get married on the same day... Firstly though, he has to try and tap up the lawyer to a local bigwig for a $1m donation…
Reviewed on June 20, 2022
Absolutely fantastic, best comedy ever because it's timeless
Reviewed on January 5, 2023
**A striking comedy from the period between the world wars.** This film is a light comedy, very good-natured and full of twists, in which the life of a quiet paleontologist at a natural history museum is completely changed after meeting a volcanic and clumsy young woman. He is about to get married, he is waiting for a large donation to the museum from a rich old woman and he is unaware that the young woman is, in…
Reviewed on June 1, 2024
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The main cast of Bringing Up Baby (1938) includes Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett and Barry Fitzgerald. The film was directed by Howard Hawks. You can see the full cast and crew list, with character names, further up this page.
Bringing Up Baby was released on February 18, 1938 and runs for 1h 42m.
Bringing Up Baby (1938) holds an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 from 1,115 viewer votes, and is a good pick if you enjoy comedy and romance films. Read the viewer reviews on this page to decide for yourself.
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