| Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
List Price: $26.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  155 reviews
Sales Rank: 3366
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 102
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDT7321D
ISBN: 0780651308
UPC: 053939732122
EAN: 9780780651302
ASIN: B0007TKNCY
Theatrical Release Date: February 18, 1938
Release Date: March 1, 2005
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Product Description
A wild & crazy heiress with a pet leopard named baby sets her sights on an absent-minded paleontologist & inadvertantly makes a shambles of his life. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 08/06/2007 Starring: Katharine Hepburn Charlie Ruggles Run time: 102 minutes
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"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? --Robert Horton
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 Great classic! January 6, 2009
This is one of my favorite classics and certainly one of my favorite Katherine Hepburn movies. I don't understand why it did not do better in ratings when it was in theatres. Katherine Hepburn is the funniest ditzy heiress ever and the movie has a nice quick pace. My kids even enjoyed it.
Great movie! January 1, 2009
The item was just as described and it was shipped out almost immediately. I think I received it four or five days after I purchased it.
Best of the Screw Balls November 21, 2008
Howard Hawkes can do it all. The screwball comedy was never better and alas never will be better. I suppose you could say this is a gimmick picture as they use a live leopard in a number of scenes. The Cary Grant brontosaurus has a small part as well.
Hepburn sees Cary the four-eyed prof and goes after the befuddled handsome man with everything a 1930's girl has. Madcap motor-mouth one liners rip away. Cary is embarrassed, disgraced, and horrified for ninety minutes till Hepburn cannot be denied. Amazing fast pace and editing for one of the finest comedies ever made; it can be watched again and again.
one of cary grant's finest... November 12, 2008
This movie is absolutely hilarious! I just love Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in this film! She has her own unique character in this film, she is a bit ditzy, but head over heels in love with Cary Grant's character. He, however, doesn't feel the same about her, but is reluctant to stay with her because she asks him to, or because she keeps preventing him from leaving! This movie is definitely one of my favorite old black & whites.
 Please! September 30, 2008
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is so BAD! It's not funny, at all. It's simply not funny. No plot, laughs, likable charaters, nothing good. Skip it, skip it, skip it.
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