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Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared…
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The chasm between critics and the general public is best illustrated by films championed as the greatest ever made by the former and rejected at the box office by the latter. This phenomenon includes even comedy, arguably the most audience-friendly genre of all. One such example is *Bringing Up Baby*, the 1938 film directed by Howard Hawks, hailed as one of the best screwball comedies ever made and one of the finest…More
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Image I saw Howard Hawks' 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938) years ago for the first time and didn't like it, just as I didn't like it when it was first released. Afterwards, I have seen it many times and, considering the prestige it has acquired, I have tried to look at it from other perspectives to see if I could get the hang of it, but I have not. So I have tried to analyze the reasons for this rejection. I think t…More
The other night, my Bonnie Bride and I settled in to watch *Bringing Up Baby* (1938), a screwball comedy with a mix of slapstick thrown in starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Neither one of us had seen this film before, but we were both aware of this classic film, so the timing was good. *Bringing Up Baby* movie poster - IMDB Grant play David, s a paleontologist at a museum who is due to get married, and awai…More
First day of the week, so let's talk today about comedy, so that we can get rid of the darkness of Monday. And because the work week almost always goes at a crazy pace, let's remember one of the favorite movies that combines dizzying screwball comedy with love story. # Bringing up baby source Meet David Huxley (Cary Grant) : paleontologist. His main goal is to complete the assembly of the skeleton of a Brontosaurus,…More
La comedia de enredos, (screwball comedy), es un género muy popular desarrolados en las décadas de los años 30 y 40. En estas comedias se cuenta una historia que se va complicando hasta llegar a un máximo de locura que es resuelto de una manera sencilla. Con diálogos rápidos, giros argumentales y una tipología de guión presentes en el cine actual, el teatro, y las series de televisión. Dentro de este género cinemato…More
Do you believe that there is a movie movie that the concept and the story is too advanced for the size of his time? So what will happen ?, what about the movie itself, the cast and crew involved in it? In 1938, when Bringing up baby was first released, the film was labeled a "career suicide" like Grant, Hepburn and Hawks. Howard Hawks was fired from studio RKO Radio Pictures (when the Hawks still had another 2 movie…More