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Features: DVD, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
All the earnest paleontoligist (Cary Grant) wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress (Katharine Hepburn) nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce and more. In this giddy romp directed by Howard Hawks, Grant ends up in a negligee, Hepburn ends up in a bottomless evening gown, everyone ends up in jail and Bringing Up Baby ends up as the most glorious laughter-inducing movie ever!
Editor's Note
A nonstop profusion of hilarious calamities, coincidences, and misunderstandings ensue when an accident-prone heiress turns a sheltered scientist's life upside down. Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a straitlaced paleontologist juggling three important events at once: the arrival of an extremely rare bone needed to complete his brontosaurus skeleton; a meeting to ask for a million dollars for his museum from a wealthy donor; and his impending marriage to the humorless Miss Swallow (Virginia Walker). Into David's life comes Susan (Katharine Hepburn), a free-spirited young woman who seems to bring trouble wherever she goes. Thanks to Susan, David finds himself involved in one ridiculous situation after another, and soon the two are prowling around a country estate looking for the missing dinosaur bone, hunting for a lost pet leopard named Baby, and somehow falling in love. Grant and Hepburn form a sharp-witted and hysterical comic duo, and Howard Hawks directs BRINGING UP BABY with the control of a master, creating a shining example of brilliant screwball comedy.
| Features | Audio: English Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 3/1/2005 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1938 | | Catalog ID: 6407 | | UPC: 00053939640724 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Our marriage must entail no domestic entanglements of any kind." ---- Alice Swallow to her fiancee, Dr. David Huxley (Virginia Walker and Cary Grant) | | "I'll be with you in a minute Mr. Peabody!" ---- David Huxley repeatedly throughout the film | | "There are only two things I have to do: finish my brontosaurus and get married at three o'clock." ---- David Huxley to Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) | | "Susan,... Susan, I don't know, you look at everything upside down. I've never known any one quite like you." ---- David | | "The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." ---- Dr. Lehman (Fritz Feld) to Susan | | "If you had an aunt who would give you a million dollars if she liked you and you knew she wouldn't like you if she found a leopard in your apartment, what would you do?" ---- Susan to David | | "Because I just went gay! All of a sudden!" ---- David explaining to Aunt Elizabeth (May Robson) why he is wearing a woman's boa--collared negligee |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"Susan is one of the first (and the best) of Screen Savers..." 04/01/2004 p.68Los Angeles Times
"One of the quintessential screwball comedies as well as one of the loopiest..." 03/27/2005 p.E13 |
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