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Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1938)

Katharine Hepburn , Cary Grant  |  NR |  DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (246 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
  • Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Turner Home Ent
  • DVD Release Date: March 1, 2005
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (246 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007TKNCY
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,725 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Disc 1:
  • Digitally Remastered Movie with Commentary by Director/Writer Peter Bogdanovich
  • Howard Hawks Movie Trailer Gallery
  • Disc 2:
  • Two Revealing Documentaries About the Star and Director: Feature-Length Cary Grant: A Class Apart and The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
  • Two Vintage Vault Treasures: The Comedy Short Campus Cinderella and the Cartoon A Star Is Hatched

Editorial Reviews

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"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? --Robert Horton

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Customer Reviews

Of course it's a romantic comedy with a good lot of slapstick & silliness thrown to just be fun. Mark Showalter  |  56 reviewers made a similar statement
This is one of the best screwball comedies I have ever seen. Adrian L. Hall  |  28 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
90 of 94 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars MADCAP SCREWBALL COMEDY... February 17, 2003
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This is a terrific, old fashioned, madcap, screwball comedy. Deftly directed by Howard Hawkes, the pace is frenetic from the get-go and never lets up. Starring Cary Grant, as a straight-laced paleontologist, and Katherine Hepburn, as an impulsive and beautiful heiress, this film is simply about as good as comedy gets.

The plot itself is simple. David Huxley (Cary Grant), a noted paleontologist, is trying to get a philanthropical grant of money for his museum from a wealthy donor. In his quest for this charitable gift, he runs into Susan (Katherine Hepburn), who, unbeknownst to him, is the niece and prospective heiress to his potential philanthropist's fortune. Once David meets up with this madcap heiress, his life will never be the same.

The film is noted for its highly improbable situations, its rat-a-tat-tat, stacatto delivery of lines, its frenetic pacing, and impeccable comedic timing. Toss in a missing dinosaur bone, a little dog with a fondness for such, a domesticated leopard (if there is such a thing), a not so tame leopard, a great cast and script, and voila, one ends up with a great film!

Cary Grant is marvelous as David Huxley, the straight-laced, befuddled man of science who is drawn into improbable situations by Susan. Katherine Hepburn is sensational as Susan, the airhead heiress whose hair-brained ideas just lead to trouble. Of course, Susan falls for David, and the games begin. In addition to Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, the film has notable performances by Charles Ruggles, as big game hunter Major Applegate, Barry Fitzgerald as the hapless hired hand, Mr. Gogarty, and Walter Catlett, as Slocum, the criminally stupid town constable.

It is with good reason that this film made The Entertainment Weekly list of the 100 best comedies ever made. It is an assessment with which I heartily concur. This is a superlative, vintage film that is well worth having in one's personal collection. Bravo!

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86 of 92 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars So Many Fond Memories January 17, 2004
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I give full credit to a bachelor uncle, Harry Johnson, for the fact that I became a movie buff early in my childhood. Throughout the Great Depression, as he repeatedly explained, he escaped from all the financial hardships by attending the local movie theaters on the South Side of Chicago. One of his all-time favorites is this one. You can thus imagine how thrilled he was when I gave him a VCR one distant Christmas, accompanied by VHSs of this film and It's a Wonderful Life. At Christmas and on his birthday, I gave him VHS versions of other films (e.g. Going My Way, Bells of St. Mary, and The Virginian). Whenever I returned to visit him, we would head for his favorite restaurant in Oak Park (Otto's) for a steak dinner, then return to his apartment to watch a movie. More often than not, this was the one he selected. We would settle back with lavishly buttered popcorn and a cold beer and again become enchanted by Bringing Up Baby.

Directed by Howard Hawks and co-starring Cary Grant (David Huxley) and Katherine Hepburn (Susan Vance), this is the archetypical screwball comedy. While golfing, Susan falls in love with David, a paleontologist. "Baby" is her pet leopard. Any summary of the film's plot cannot begin to suggest what a delightful experience it is to observe her pursuit of him, complicated at one point by mistaken identity (stay with me on this) when Baby is mistaken for another leopard which has escaped from the local zoo. Meanwhile, David (stay with me now) pursues a missing dinosaur bone which he needs inorder to....

Hepburn and Grant are brilliant, as are several members of the supporting cast, notably Charlie Ruggles (Major Horace Applegate), Barry Fitzgerald (Mr. Gogarty), and May Robson (Aunt Elizabeth). So many memorable scenes. Somehow, Hawks and his cast establish and then sustain zaniness at a high level of sophistication. Can it really be 65 years since this film first appeared? How remarkable that it has lost none of its entertainment value since then. None. Today, how much I wish I could see it again with Uncle Harry. He died years ago but I still have all those fond memories. He and they live on in films such as this. While seeing it again recently, I returned in time to Oak Park, to Otto's, and then to sharing it in a small apartment with Uncle Harry.

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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the First and Best Screwball Comedies! March 11, 2000
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This is one of the fastest, funniest and zanniest comedies ever made. Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant are in great shape. A funny script, 2 of the 30's greatest actors, Howard Hawks, and a great supporting cast combine to make this one of the most funniest films ever made. Rapid-fire dialogue and hilarious situations make this film entertaining all the way through. I can't see how this film could of been a flop when first released, it has stood the test of time better than most films from that era. This is the definitive screwball comedy, hilarious, see this movie. One of the greats. From a scale of 1-10 I give this film a 10!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another stopper by 2 great actors
We are so used to today's HD quality that we forget the time period these movies were made, technology can do only so much to enhance images so please don't get caught up in any... Read more
Published 13 hours ago by MZant
5.0 out of 5 stars an oldie but a goodie
A great old film!! A must see for those who appreciate cinema. Newer movies coul lesrn something from the likes of this movie.
Published 10 days ago by Leslie Leventhal
4.0 out of 5 stars Treasure
I had never watched this movie before and was quite surprised at how good it was. Manipulative Hepburn steals the show!
Published 11 days ago by Bill of Chicago
5.0 out of 5 stars a timeless classic
This movie will always make me laugh and cry - it is fun and funny and meaningful and touching. ENJOY an old classic
Published 12 days ago by Janet Rich
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the funniest movies ever
This is one of my all time favorite movies. The interplay between Grant & Hepburn is magic. Excellent film even in today's world.
Published 12 days ago by C. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Must see classic
This movie has it all! And it was engaging even for my young children. Two of the best at their best.
Published 17 days ago by Teresa
5.0 out of 5 stars dvd movie
my mother was very pleased with her gift she really like old movies she said it plays very well, okay
Published 17 days ago by feliciayvonnehalton
5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing Up Baby
I loved the fast paced dialogue between Cary Grant and Katherin Hepburn. The premise is silly, but what these two actors did with the story made you thoroughly enjoy their madcap... Read more
Published 18 days ago by J. Gruggel
5.0 out of 5 stars Great classic comedy.
They don't make them like this anymore. Grant and Hepburn are hilarious in this
classic comedy. Highly recommended for anyone who has not seen it.
Published 20 days ago by Thomas Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing Up Baby
If you enjoy Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, then you will love this classic. It is so funny with nonstop laughter!
Published 23 days ago by Beckyard
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