Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Cary GrantDavid Huxley
- Katharine HepburnSusan Vance
- Charles RugglesHorace Applegate
- Walter CatlettConstable Slocum
- Barry FitzgeraldAloysius Gogarty
- May RobsonElizabeth Random
- Fritz FeldFritz Lehman
- Leona RobertsHannah Gogarty
- George IrvingAlexander Peabody
- Tala BirellMrs. Lehman
Recommendations
- 100
Empire
Damn, damn funny. - 100
The Guardian
Hawks powers through all of this, keeping his performers busy with a torrent of one-liners and physical comedy moves that only the extremely talented could even hope to grapple with. It's perfect. - 100
The Guardian
Bringing Up Baby is very funny. It leaves one in awe at the speed and timing of Grant and Hepburn, as well as their goofy, lopsided humanity...Don't trust the public to recognise a masterpiece. - 100
Time Out
One of the finest screwball comedies ever...Fast, furious and very, very funny. - 91
The A.V. Club
As Hawks admits, Bringing Up Baby isn’t a perfect film. But there’s an undeniable, ephemeral magic that comes from watching him, Hepburn, and Grant all work together on such a madcap story. - 90
The New Yorker
Having already helped launch the genre, the director Howard Hawks here reinvents his comic voice, establishing archetypes of theme and performance that still hold sway. - 90
The New Yorker
The director, Howard Hawks, keeps all this trifling nonsense in such artful balance that it never impinges on the real world; it may be the American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy. - 80
Variety
Bringing Up Baby is constructed for maximum of laughs, with Ruggles and Catlett adding to the starring team’s zany antics. There is little rhyme or reason to most of the action, but it’s all highly palatable.
