Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Bringing Up Baby (1938) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1938 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Howard Hawks

Written By:
Dudley Nichols
Hagar Wilde

Actors:
Katharine Hepburn ..... Susan
Cary Grant ..... David
Charles Ruggles ..... Major Applegate
Walter Catlett ..... Slocum
Barry Fitzgerald ..... Mr. Gogarty
May Robson ..... Aunt Elizabeth
Fritz Feld ..... Dr. Lehman
Leona Roberts ..... Mrs. Gogarty
George Irving ..... Mr. Peabody
Tala Birell ..... Mrs. Lehman
Virginia Walker ..... Alice Swallow
John Kelly ..... Elmer

Synopsis:

Zoologist David Huxley hopes to get a $1 million donation for the Museum of Natural History and in the process meets the potential benefactor's niece, Susan Vance. David is engaged to his assistant Alice Swallow - he's getting married the next day - but that doesn't stop Susan who decides she has met her man. Susan and David are a study in opposites - he the serious, bookish scientist and she the madcap heiress. Mayhem ensues when a leopard Susan ordered as a gift for her aunt arrives and is then confused with a similar-looking but quite dangerous leopard that escapes while being transported from a local zoo. This is only the beginning of their day together as further mix-ups add to the hilarity.

When Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a scatterbrained young woman, takes a shine to Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant), a sober palaeontologist, mayhem ensues. Dr. Huxley, engaged to be married and intensely interested in the arrival of the brontosaurus bone required to complete his project at the museum, is inextricably bound up with Susan's escapades when she finds herself responsible for Baby, a tame leopard shipped to her New York apartment and intended for Susan's aunt in Connecticut. The plot thickens when George the Terrier steals the priceless bone and buries it, Baby escapes, and an untamed leopard escapes from a circus convoy (resulting in a twist on the mistaken identity ploy). Will Susan's love for David be reciprocated? Will David get his bone back? Will Baby be brought up - or brought down?

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 February, 2022.