Bringing Up Baby

August 28th, 2008

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Bringing Up Baby

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Family, Romance
Release Year: 1938
Country: USA
Runtime: 102
Rating: 7.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Howard Hawks
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
  • An American excess story.
  • Yesterday he was a relief pitcher in the minor leagues of life. Today hes been handed the American Dream... on a very hot plate.
  • He has 30 million to spend in 30 days - and hes doing it in the craziest, funniest way ever!
  • You dont have to be crazy to blow 30 million dollars in 30 days. But it helps.
  • Your Basic Riches-To-Rags Comedy

    • Writing by: Dudley Nichols - (screenplay) &
    Hagar Wilde - (screenplay)
    Hagar Wilde - (story)

    Produced by: Cliff Reid - associate producer
    Howard Hawks - producer (uncredited)

    Cast: Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
    Cary Grant - Dr. David Huxley
    Charles Ruggles - Maj. Horace Applegate (as Charlie Ruggles)
    Walter Catlett - Constable Slocum
    Barry Fitzgerald - Aloysius Gogarty
    May Robson - Aunt Elizabeth Random
    Fritz Feld - Dr. Fritz Lehman
    Leona Roberts - Hannah Gogarty
    George Irving - Alexander Peabody
    Tala Birell - Mrs. Lehman
    Virginia Walker - Alice Swallow

    Music: Roy Webb
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    Plot Outline: David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances...
    Plot: 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.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Thanks to the staff of Kelvingrove Museum, the Lord Provost and staff at Glasgow City Chambers, residents of Kersland Street, all the staff at the Arthouse Hotel, Glasgow, and the Earls of Wemyss and March and Lady Wemyss.

    Goofs: We know about 12 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Revealing mistakes: Glass wall in the bathroom to fence Baby in.

    Trivia: There are 25 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • Susan pretends that she and David (Cary Grant) are gangsters. The underworld nickname she gives police for David is "Jerry the Nipper", a nickname that Jerry (Grant) had in The Awful Truth (1937). David protests to the police, "Officer, shes making it up from motion pictures shes seen!"
    • This movie fared so badly at the box office that Howard Hawks was fired from his next production at RKO and Katharine Hepburn bought out her contract to avoid being cast in the film Mother Careys Chickens (1938). Coincidentally, Hepburn was labeled "box office poison" on the same day her contract was dissolved.
    • It has been suggested that co-screenwriter Dudley Nichols based the madcap romance on Katharine Hepburns affair with director John Ford at the time. However, other sources state that Hepburn and Ford were never romantically involved, explaining that although they had been on Fords yacht together, his wife had been there with them.


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