(1987), starring Madonna, is also loosely based on Bringing Up Baby. "[48] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 91 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". They profess their love for each other as Susan unconsciously swings the ladder from side to side, and as it sways more and more with each swing Susan and David finally notice the ladder moving and that Susan is in danger. Hepburn wore heavy perfume to keep Nissa calm and was unafraid of the leopard, but Grant was terrified; most scenes of the two interacting are done in close-up with a stand-in. Susan and David race to find Baby before the zoo and, mistaking a dangerous leopard (also portrayed by Nissa) from a nearby circus for Baby, they let it out of its cage. But David eventually learns that Alexander Peabody is her good friend, who she calls Boopy, and Susan's Aunt Elizabeth, with whom David has also made a bad ... 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However, Susan gets a pet panther from her brother Mark to give to their Aunt Elizabeth; David and Susan must capture the panther in the Connecticut wilderness with the help of Baby's favorite song, "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby". [26] Grant met with Howard Hughes throughout the film to discuss his character, which he said helped his performance. The censor's only objections were to the scene where Hepburn's dress is torn, and references to politicians (such as Al Smith and Jim Farley). 133, Vieira, Mark A., Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, Abrams, 1999, pg. Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The zoo is called to help capture Baby. Her lawyer, Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs to get in his favor. Written by "[47], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 8.8/10. Bringing Up Baby (1938) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Zoe leaves Axel in charge of the school project - watching over an infant simulator doll - but when MadCap brings the doll to life, Axel and the team must stop the baby without damaging it or risk getting a failing grade! Hawks built Grant's confidence by promising to coach him throughout the film, instructing him to watch Harold Lloyd films for inspiration. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. [24] Grant was initially concerned about being able to play an intellectual character and took two weeks to accept the role, despite the new contract. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: "Jerry the Nipper" was Irene Dunne's nickname for Grant's character in, Vieira, Mark A., Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, Abrams, 1999, pg. [39], The film received good advance reviews; Otis Ferguson of The New Republic thought the film very funny, praising Hawks' direction. Entertainment Weekly voted the film 24th on its list of greatest films. The day before his wedding, David meets Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) by chance on a golf course when she plays his ball. [20], In the film, the line was an ad-lib by Grant and not in any version of the original script. Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films Grant and Hepburn made together, and their chemistry is what keeps it from entirely flying off the rails. [36], Hawks' editor, George Hively, cut the film during production and the final prints were made a few days after shooting ended. While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby. The director received an additional $40,000 to terminate his RKO contract on March 21, 1938. Title: "[47], Bringing Up Baby has been adapted several times. Check out some the surprise hits of 2021 that caught the attention of IMDb fans and are all available to stream now. David needs the $1 million endowment of wealthy dowager Mrs. Carleton Random to complete the project. Hawks initially wanted silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd; Berman rejected Lloyd and Ronald Colman, offering the role to Robert Montgomery, Fredric March and Ray Milland (all of whom turned it down). As the term gay did not become familiar to the general public until the Stonewall riots in 1969,[19] it is debated whether the word was used here in its original sense (meaning "happy")[20] or is an intentional, joking reference to homosexuality. Shortly after the film's premiere, Hepburn was labeled as "box office poison" by the Independent Theatre Owners of America and her career would not recover until The Philadelphia Story two years later. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby. Bringing Up Baby: An Ode. bringing-up-baby-1938_202006 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4 Sound sound Everyone you met was a screwball and since that time I learned my lesson and don't intend ever again to make everybody crazy. Hepburn took Hawks aside, telling him never to talk to her like that again since she was old friends with most of the crew. [28] The film's musical score is minimal, primarily Grant and Hepburn singing "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby". In August, Hawks hired gag writers Robert McGowan and Gertrude Purcell[15] for uncredited script rewrites, and McGowan added a scene inspired by the comic strip Professor Dinglehoofer and his Dog in which a dog buries a rare dinosaur bone. More Bates Pregnancies! [12] Nichols was in touch with Ford during the screenwriting, and the film included such members of the John Ford Stock Company as Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald, D'Arcy Corrigan and associate producer Cliff Reid. [57] Hepburn's former boyfriend Howard Hughes bought RKO in 1948, and sold it in 1955; when he sold the company, Hughes retained the copyright to six films (including Bringing Up Baby). "[43] Harrison's Reports called the film "An excellent farce" with "many situations that provoke hearty laughter,"[44] and John Mosher of The New Yorker wrote that both stars "manage to be funny" and that Hepburn had never "seemed so good-natured. [59] Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It have been cited in particular as influences on the film and the screwball comedy in general, with their "haughty, self-sufficient men, strong women and fierce combat of words and wit. [36] Due to its perceived failure, Hawks was released early from his two-film contract with RKO[36] and Gunga Din was eventually directed by George Stevens. RKO agreed to the casting, but had reservations because of Hepburn's salary and lack of box-office success for several years. When Susan's aunt arrives, she discovers David in a negligee. She is the flighty heiress Susan Vance. There were no normal people in it. Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. [13] John Ford was a friend of Hawks, and visited the set. 168, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), "Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles to National Film Registry", "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress", "Censored Films and Television at University of Virginia online", "Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls", "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees", "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)", Reprints of historic reviews, photo gallery at CaryGrant.net, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bringing_Up_Baby&oldid=1016421660, United States National Film Registry films, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Dr. David Huxley: "It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!" He is fabulous in his role as the bumbling and befuddled, Major Horace Applegate. Bringing Up Baby, American screwball comedy film, released in 1938, that is widely considered a classic of its genre. [24], Hawks' friend Howard Hughes finally suggested Cary Grant for the role. Adding to his stress is his impending marriage to the dour Alice Swallow (Virginia Walker) and the need to impress Elizabeth Random (May Robson), who is considering a million-dollar donation to his museum. Passed | 1h 42min | Comedy, Family, Romance | 18 February 1938 (USA) 1:38 | Trailer. Ruggles is a personal favorite of mine. The film's concept was described by philosopher Stanley Cavell as a "definitive achievement in the history of the art of film. Its tameness is helped by hearing the song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Her sister, Alyssa (Bates) Webster, is expecting a baby in February. In a scene where Grant has Baby on a leash, it is quite obvious that the leash was hand painted on film because it proved impossible to make the two parts of the leash join in the traveling matte. "[47] Leonard Maltin stated that it is now "considered the definitive screwball comedy, and one of the fastest, funniest films ever made; grand performances by all. She tells David that her aunt has given her the million dollars, and she wants to donate it to the museum, but David is more interested in telling her that the day spent with her was the best day of his life. [27] As Hawks could not find a panther that would work for the film, Baby was changed to a leopard so they could cast the trained leopard Nissa, who had worked in films for eight years, making several B-movies. In March 1937, Howard Hawks signed a contract at RKO for an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din, which had been in pre-production since the previous fall. Hawks worked with the two writers during summer 1937, and they came up with a 202-page script. When Hawks (an older friend of the crew) asked a lighting tech who he would rather drop a light on, Hepburn agreed to behave on set. David and Susan are jailed by a befuddled town policeman, Constable Slocum (Walter Catlett), for acting strangely at the house of Dr. Fritz Lehman (Fritz Feld), where they had cornered the circus leopard, thinking it was Baby. "[58] Cavell noted that Bringing Up Baby was made in a tradition of romantic comedy with inspiration from ancient Rome and Shakespeare. [62], In 1990 (the registry's second year), Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". of seasons1 No. Catlett acted out scenes with Grant for Hepburn, showing her that he was funnier when he was serious. [32] The scene where Grant frantically asks Hepburn where his bone is was shot from 10 am until well after 4 pm because of the stars' laughing fits. Josie Bates will have two pregnancy companions for the first half of her pregnancy. When Hepburn paused and realized that everyone was looking at her, she asked what was the matter; Hawks asked her if she was finished imitating a parrot. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone: the "intercostal clavicle." Peter Bogdanovich's film What's Up, Doc? [16], Shooting began September 23, 1937, and was scheduled to end November 20, 1937,[28] on a budget of $767,676. When RKO was unable to borrow Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Franchot Tone from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film and the adaptation of Gunga Din was delayed, Hawks began looking for a new project. [19], The 1933 film My Weakness had previously used the word "gay" as an overt descriptor of homosexuality; one of two men pining away for the same woman suddenly suggests a solution to their mutual problem: "Let's be gay!" [16] Beginning at the Arthur Ranch shoot,[21] Grant and Hepburn often ad-libbed their dialogue and frequently delayed production by making each other laugh. In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,"[3][4] and it has appeared on a number of greatest-films lists, ranking 88th on the American Film Institute's 100 greatest American films of all time list. Bringing Up Baby ( 1938) Bringing Up Baby. Last spring I wrote a review of Bringing Up Baby (1938) for the Classic Movie Blog Association’s Spring Blogathon “The Fabulous Films of the Thirties.”. The site's critical consensus reads: "With Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at their effervescent best, Bringing Up Baby is a seamlessly assembled comedy with enduring appeal. For, as far as filmmaking is concerned, there are scenes projected in here, that might drop your jaw. The tame leopard Baby and the escaped circus leopard were both played by a trained leopard, Nissa. [38] It had two advance previews in January 1938, where it received either As or A-pluses on audience-feedback cards. The … [7], Hawks then hired screenwriter Dudley Nichols, best known for his work with director John Ford, for the script; Wilde would develop the characters and comedic elements of the script, while Nichols would take care of the story and structure. [16], It is debated by some whether Bringing Up Baby is the first fictional work (apart from pornography) to use the word gay in a homosexual context. These qualities soon embroil David in several frustrating incidents. A second message from Mark makes clear the leopard is for Elizabeth, as she always wanted one. 9/10. Baby and George run off. Bringing Up Baby. David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a mild-mannered paleontologist. Bringing Up Baby isn't a comedy. He labeled Hepburn's performance "breathless, senseless, and terribly, terribly fatiguing",[46] and added, "If you've never been to the movies, Bringing Up Baby will be new to you – a zany-ridden product of the goofy-farce school. It also stands as a prime example of the liberating influence of eccentricity (and the … The script's final draft had several scenes in the middle of the film in which David and Susan declare their love for each other which Hawks cut during production. (1972), starring Barbra Streisand, was intended as an homage to the film, and has contributed to its reputation. Bringing Up Baby Hawks, maybe, has the ingredients that I don't prefer. But who hasn't been to the movies? 28 of 58 people found this review helpful. Her lawyer, Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs to get in his favor. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. The film's reputation began to grow during the 1950s, when it was first shown on television. Yet like a number of the great classic films, it’s being made at all was almost accidental. The round glasses Grant wears in the film are reminiscent of Harold Lloyd and of Ford. of episodes4 Production Executive producerDaisy Goodwin Production companySilver River Release Original networkChannel 4 Original release25 September – 16 October 2007 External links Website Bringing Up Baby is a four-part British television documentary series which compares three different childcare methods for babies: the Truby King method, the Benjamin Spock approach, and the Continuu… Frightened, she climbs onto the skeleton, causing it to collapse, and David grabs her hand just as she falls. When Slocum does not believe their story, Susan tells him they are members of the "Leopard Gang"; she calls herself "Swingin' Door Susie," and David "Jerry the Nipper. Production was frequently delayed due to uncontrollable laughing fits between Hepburn and Grant. "The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." "[53] The director went on to work with RKO on three films over the next decade. was based on the scene in which Grant's coat and Hepburn's dress are torn in Bringing Up Baby. A variation of this scene, with Grant yelling "Quiet! The objective story, such as it is, deals with the fact that David and his colleagues want the wealthy Mrs. Carleton Random to donate one million dollars to the museum. More [25] Grant had just finished shooting his breakthrough romantic comedy The Awful Truth (1937),[9] and Hawks may have seen a rough cut of the unreleased film. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. [50] Following its second run, the film made a profit of $163,000. Susan thinks David is a zoologist, and manipulates him into accompanying her in taking Baby to her farm in Connecticut. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. Was this review helpful to you? Some time later, Susan finds David, who has been jilted by Alice because of her, on a high platform working on his brontosaurus reconstruction at the museum. [33] After one month of shooting Hawks was seven days behind schedule. Legendary Academy Award-winner Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in this screwball comedy classic about a madcap heiress who upsets the staid existence of a rigid zoology professor. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. Certificate: Passed However, the Studio Relations Committee censors decreed that the line was too risqué and had to be muffled. Don't take the movie too seriously, e.g. until the only person still talking was Hepburn. [38], Like all Hawks' comedies, the film is known for its fast pace (despite being filmed primarily in long medium shots, with little cross-cutting). [34] The film Who's That Girl? The classic 1938 madcap comedy Bringing Up Baby featured Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn on the big screen as David and Susan, a zoology professor and a flighty heiress thrown together in a series of crazy mishaps involving her pet leopard Baby.. I’m a Katharine Hepburn fan and would watch her in anything, but the thing I love about this movie is her character’s charming country house … After she dangles for a few seconds, David lifts her onto the platform. The big cat was supervised by its trainer, Olga Celeste, who stood by with a whip during shooting. Bringing Up Baby is a classic 1938 Screwball Comedy directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and a leopard.It was inspired by a short story by Hagar Wilde. David's prized intercostal clavicle is delivered, but Susan's aunt's dog George (Skippy) takes it and buries it somewhere. However, it was a financial disappointment in the Midwest, as well as most other cities in the country, including NYC; to RKO's chagrin, the film's premiere in New York on March 3, 1938 at Radio City Music Hall made only $70,000 and it was pulled after one week[50] in favor of Jezebel with Bette Davis. [10] RKO paid King Features $1,000 to use the idea for the film on September 21. Catholic education begins in earnest in the crib and advances to playpen and pre-school, to grade school, high school, college, and beyond. The objective story throughline in Bringing up Baby is decidedly sparse, as the story focuses much more on the relationship and misadventures of Susan and David. Comedy. How 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'Macbeth' Portray the Chaos Caused by the Subversion of Gender Roles. David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. [28] The film's cost for sets and props was only $5,000 over budget, but all actors (including Nissa and Skippy) were paid approximately double their initial salaries. [40] Variety praised the film, singling out Hawks' pacing and direction, calling Hepburn's performance "one of her most invigorating screen characterizations" and saying Grant "performs his role to the hilt";[41] their only criticism was the length of the jail scene. That's for sure. [61], The popularity of Bringing Up Baby has increased since it was shown on television during the 1950s, and by the 1960s film analysts (including the writers at Cahiers du Cinema in France) affirmed the film's quality. Susan's brother Mark has sent her a tame leopard named Baby (Nissa) from Brazil. [33] There were also several news reports about Hawks' difficulty filming a live leopard and the potential danger to highly valuable actors, so some scenes required rear-screen projection,[34] while several others were shot using traveling mattes. Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. The zany narrative begins when eccentric heiress Susan Vance (played by Katharine Hepburn) meets and repeatedly embarrasses bookish paleontologist Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant) David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. [34], By February 18, the film had been cut to 9,204 feet. I was thoroughly entertained. [6] RKO bought the screen rights in June[7] for $1,004, and Hawks worked briefly with Wilde on the film's treatment. Filming began in September 1937 and wrapped in January 1938; it was over schedule and over budget. (2,011) IMDb 7.8 1 h 42 min 1938 X-Ray 7+. The supporting cast is also uniformly excellent. [21] According to Vito Russo in The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised 1987), the script originally had Grant's character say "I...I suppose you think it's odd, my wearing this. [16] Grant then had a non-exclusive, four-picture deal with RKO for $50,000 per film, and Grant's manager used his casting in the film to renegotiate his contract, earning him $75,000 plus the bonuses Hepburn was receiving. Susan, who escaped out of a window during a police interview, unwittingly drags the highly irritated circus leopard into the jail. I really enjoyed this classic screwball comedy. Premiere ranked Cary Grant's performance as Dr. David Huxley 68th on its list of 100 all-time greatest performances,[63] and ranked Susan Vance 21st on its list of 100 all-time greatest movie characters. Bringing Up Baby essays are academic essays for citation. We try to translate the mysterious language of babies. [28] The first cut of the film (10,150 feet long)[37] was sent to the Hayes Office in mid-January. [7] The Bringing Up Baby script underwent several changes, and at one point there was an elaborate pie fight, inspired by Mack Sennett films. Fans of classic films will recognize these highly respected names. RKO producers expressed concerns about the film's delays and expense, coming 40 days over schedule and $330,000 over budget, and also disliked Grant's glasses and Hepburn's hair. [8] Wilde's short story differed significantly from the film: David and Susan are engaged, he is not a scientist and there is no dinosaur, intercostal clavicle or museum. Bringing Up Baby Wall Art Vintage Poster, Bringing Up Baby Black White Print Home Kitchen Decor Gift for Men Women StuffByRoman. She wrecks his car, breaks up his wedding, and nearly costs him his life’s work. Complications arise when Susan falls in love with him, and she tries to keep him at her house as long as possible, even hiding his clothes, to prevent his imminent marriage. Bringing Up Baby is a perfect example of a film that was made under that classical Hollywood system, and yet still was able to communicate its own individual message to the audience through Hawks' direction. Producer Pandro S. Berman wanted to cut five more minutes, but relented when Hawks, Grant and Cliff Reid objected. After showing him the missing bone which she found by trailing George for three days, Susan, against his warnings, climbs a tall ladder next to the dinosaur to be closer to him. The film premiered on February 16, 1938 at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco (where it was a hit), and was also successful in Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.. [29] Filming began in-studio with the scenes in Susan's apartment, moving to the Bel Air Country Club in early October for the golf-course scenes. Since then, the film has received acclaim from both critics and audiences for its zany antics and pratfalls, absurd situations and misunderstandings, perfect sense of comic timing, completely screwball cast, series of lunatic and hare-brained misadventures, disasters, light-hearted surprises and romantic comedy.[2]. While Hepburn was chatting with a crew member, Hawks yelled "Quiet!" 'Bringing Up Baby' is a frenzy of running around, unexpected pratfalls, and clever dialog. In April 1937, he read a short story by Hagar Wilde in Collier's magazine called "Bringing Up Baby" and immediately wanted to make a film from it,[5] remembering that it made him laugh out loud. There is incidental music in the Ritz scene, and an arrangement of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" during the opening and closing credits by musical director Roy Webb. Show more Major Applegate had an assistant and food taster named Ali (which was intended to be played by Mischa Auer), but this character was replaced with Aloysius Gogarty. [30][31], Most shooting was done at the Arthur Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, which was used as Aunt Elizabeth's estate for interior and exterior scenes. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. (leaping into the air at the word gay). Hawks recycled the nightclub scene in which Hepburn's dress is torn and Grant walks behind her in the comedy Man's Favorite Sport (1964). It's hard to believe today that this Howard Hawks masterpiece was a bomb in 1938, causing RKO to drop Hawks and Hepburn. A widower, his three young children, and a bombshell nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat. 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