{"id":2368,"date":"2007-03-08T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T01:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2021-02-01T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:44:06","slug":"bringing-up-baby-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Up Baby (1938)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Now it isn&#8217;t that I don&#8217;t like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I&#8217;m strangely drawn toward you, but &#8212; well, there haven&#8217;t <em>been <\/em>any quiet moments.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Poster-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Poster-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Poster-128x97.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Poster-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Poster.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a wacky heiress (Katharine Hepburn) falls for a nerdy paleontologist (Cary Grant), she does everything in her power to keep him at her side.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barry Fitzgerald Films<\/li>\n<li>Cary Grant Films<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Heiresses<\/li>\n<li>Howard Hawks Films<\/li>\n<li>Katharine Hepburn Films<\/li>\n<li>Living Nightmare<\/li>\n<li>Mistaken Identities<\/li>\n<li>Romantic Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Scientists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nHoward Hawks&#8217; &#8220;zany, lightning-paced screwball comedy&#8221; received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1938\/03\/04\/archives\/the-screen-the-cliche-expert-encounters-bringing-up-baby-at-the.html\">a scathing review from <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> upon its release, where it was panned as simply one predictable comedic gag after the other: &#8220;After the first five minutes of the Music Hall&#8217;s new show&mdash;we needed those five to orient ourselves&mdash;we were content to play the game called &#8216;the cliche expert goes to the movies&#8217; and we are not at all proud to report that we scored 100 percent.&#8221; Indeed, <em>&#8230;Baby <\/em>bombed at the box office, Hawks was fired from his next production, and Hepburn was forced to buy out her contract. Nowadays, however, <em>Bringing Up Baby<\/em> is recognized as a true classic of 1930s cinema, with hilarious dialogue, countless well-executed pratfalls, and excellent comedic performances by both Grant and Hepburn (who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1548baby.html\">accurately described by DVD Savant<\/a> as &#8220;a female cross between Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx&#8221;). As Peary notes, however, &#8220;your enjoyment of the film may depend on how long you can tolerate&#8221; watching Hepburn mischievously causing one problem after the other for Grant; indeed, in order to fully appreciate <em>Bringing Up Baby<\/em>, you must give yourself over to its inspired lunacy, and rest assured that everything will turn out &#8212; as it should &#8212; just fine in the end. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katharine Hepburn&#8217;s marvelously loopy performance (her first comedic role) as the screwball heiress; as noted by DVD Savant, she &#8220;makes the script play like her own improvisation&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Hepburn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Hepburn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Hepburn.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Hepburn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Hepburn-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Hepburn-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cary Grant as the put-upon, bespectacled scientist who wants nothing more than to retrieve his &#8220;intercostal clavicle&#8221; and get married at 3:00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Grant2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Grant2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Grant2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Grant2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Grant2-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Grant2-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Charles Ruggles as &#8220;big game hunter&#8221; Major Horace Applegate<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Ruggles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Ruggles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Ruggles.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Ruggles-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Ruggles-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Ruggles-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hepburn limping gaily after losing the heel of one shoe, chanting, &#8220;I was born on the side of the hill&#8230; &#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Heel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Heel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Heel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Heel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Heel-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Bringing-Up-Baby-Heel-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Countless hilarious lines and rejoinders:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There <em>is<\/em> a leopard on your roof and it&#8217;s my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes. This classic comedy should be seen at least once by all film fanatics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genuine Classic<\/li>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<li>Noteworthy Performance(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0029947\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1938\/03\/04\/archives\/the-screen-the-cliche-expert-encounters-bringing-up-baby-at-the.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviediva.com\/MD_root\/reviewpages\/MDBringingUpBaby.htm\">Movie Diva Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1548baby.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/68467.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now it isn&#8217;t that I don&#8217;t like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I&#8217;m strangely drawn toward you, but &#8212; well, there haven&#8217;t been any quiet moments.&#8221; Synopsis: When a wacky heiress (Katharine Hepburn) falls for a nerdy paleontologist (Cary Grant), she does everything in her power to keep him at her side. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Barry Fitzgerald Films Cary Grant Films Comedy Heiresses Howard Hawks Films Katharine Hepburn Films Living Nightmare Mistaken Identities Romantic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2368\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67915,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/67915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}