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| 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
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Avg. Customer Rating:  153 reviews
Sales Rank: 3404
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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 Adorable & Quick Witted June 7, 2008
This is one of those movies I can watch over and over again. The chemistry between Grant and Hepburn creates a perfect foil for the snappy dialogue interspersed amongst somewhat silly but completely engaging situations.
Movies from this era understand that every character matters, that they add the spice to the movie. Hence, the constable, the gardener and even the dog add to the overall screwball energy. Movies today don't seem to pay that much attention to such small details.
Hepburn is delightful. In fact, the first time I gave it to my younger brother to watch he absolutely fell in love with her. Her distinctive voice works to her advantage here as the flighty but well meaning Susan Vance. Her incredible energy and innocent machinations add depth to a character which could've descended into stereotype and annoyance if not infused with Hepburn's considerable charm.
Grant is, of course, letter perfect in a role that turns his leading man suave reputation on its head. Instead of the smooth Cary Grant, we are pleasantly surprised by his David, a nerd and rather bumbling, which offers great opportunity to bump up against the insanity of Susan, though by the end of the movie one realizes that she's not only drawn him from his shell, but allowed him to recognize that the very ordered existance he had set up with the very controlled Miss Swallow was not the answer to his dreams as he once thought.
If you wish to watch a textbook, delightful, adorable and engaging screwball comedy, I highly recommend this one as the epitome of the genre. Not to be missed.
Classic Grant/Hepburn humor at it's best! April 6, 2008
The hilarity and hijinx are non-stop! Just when you think it can't get any funnier - it does! This has been a favorite of mine since I first saw it in the seventies! My sister and I were home from school with a bad case of the flu when this movie came on and we couldn't stop laughing all the way through! It was every bit as good as I remembered and the group of teens watching with me who swore they would hate it for sure since it was so "old" couldn't stop laughing either and had to cofess that it was a great movie !
5 star package of overrated comedy March 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Bringing up Baby" is a very famous screwball comedy which was a box office failure on its release but has become a cult classic. Starring Katharine Hepburn in her first outright comedy, she is at the heart of why the film failed in 1938. In simple terms, there was just too much of her. Whilst spirited and entertaining, she is also irritating and ruthless and it is these qualities which detract from the film. Cary Grant is not simply pursued by this wilful heroine but positively harassed. Many audiences of the time did not take to Hepburn. The film is typical fast moving, fast talking Howard Hawks (the director) and the supporting cast are excellent but there is no sane character to ground the film and Hawks himself felt this was why it failed.
This 2 disk package contains some great extras. The print is excellent and Peter Bogdanovich provides an unusual commentary, quoting from Hawks himself and observing how the filming occurred, very much from a director's viewpoint. Bogdanovich remade the film of sorts as "What's up Doc" with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neill in the 70s and that suffered from the same relentless heroine as this film does.
There are 2 really good documentaries included. The first is a TCM film on the life of Cary Grant. It would have to be the definitive work on the star with appearances by 3 of his wives providing great insight into his personality. The other documentary is one of a series about filmmakers, "The Men who Made Movies", cutting together a couple of interviews with Howard Hawks. It is particularly amusing to hear him comment on the French critics who have overanalysed his legacy when all he says is 'I did it because I liked it and if I did not like it, I did it until I did." It is great to hear the director skewer their pretentions.
Lastly, there is a technicolour short film from the Warner's vault and a very young Susan Hayward can be glimpsed poolside. The cartoon is a takeoff of Hollywood stardom with the heroine goose imitating Katharine Hepburn. The Howard Hawks trailer gallery is really a marketing exercise.
The DVD is excellent value but even better if purchased as part of the Classic Comedy set from MGM/Warners.
 Regardless Of What Others May Say...... February 17, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
My daughter and I are great fans of Cary Grant movies. She is only 18 and thankfully has great taste in regards to the golden age of Hollywood movie making and the actors from that time. Cary Grant is one of our favorite actors and we own, Arsenic and Old Lace, Charade, An Affair To Remember and The Bishop's Wife. We recently watched and enjoyed Holiday with Grant and Hepburn, I thought Grant was hilarious when he did his acrobatics. Also we have enjoyed watching in the last month Houseboat, the Philadelphia Story, and My Favorite Wife. So it is not said lightly when we say this movie was irritating. My daughter was home sick one day from school recently and I put this movie in for her(and me). (By the way the only medicine she was on was ibuprofen for the cynically minded)
About thirty minutes into the movie we turned it off. The rate at which Hepburn talks is incredible and irritating; though this is a true screwball comedy, I found that the intelligence level of Hepburn's and Grant's characters belittling of their caliper of an actor. Though Grant plays a scientist that is so engrossed in his work that he is innocent in his social graces, I thought he could have done more with his implied intelligence to stand up to Hepburn's character.
By writing this I realize I am the minority of opinion, but I will not let my high regard for Grant and Hepburn as actors be my only reason I like this movie. It is possible we will watch this again in the future, if so I may update our opinion of the movie.
I Can't Give You Anything But Love February 16, 2008
Bringing Up Baby is one of the funniest, and one of my favorite, comedies ever! I watched it with my little brothers and they loved it! Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn are hilariously funny! They make a great team!
Cary Grant is David Huxley, a stuffy paleontologist hoping for an a million dollar donation to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. He meets Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a nutty heiress who falls for him and does everything and anything that comes to her mind to keep him near you (after all, "David, your so handsome without your glasses!") She takes his car, rips his tuxedo, tells her aunt ( the one who is planning on donating the $1 million) that his name is "Mr. Bone" and that he is crazy, and convinces him into helping her take "Baby," her pet leopard to her home in the country. Along the way, the dog - George- takes, and buries his intercostal clavicle, the last bone needed to finish his skeleton (the one that took five years and three expeditions to find). Susan's suggestion, "Now that they know where to find them couldn't you just send them back to get another?" They end up in jail...and with two leopards ("Baby" and a vicious leopard that escaped from a circus). This is a must-see comedy!
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