Bringing Up Baby
“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. Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their “love impulse”, yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. (Robert Horton)
Supporting film: GARE! LES LIONS!
- Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
- Cary Grant - David Huxley
- Charlie Ruggles - Major Applegate
- Walter Catlett - Slocum
- Barry Fitzgerald - Mr. Gogarty
- Dudley Nichols
- Hagar Wilde
- Russell Metty
- John L. Cass
- George Hively
- Jimmy McHugh
- Dorothy Fields
- Van Nest Polglase
- Howard Geer