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Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:42:03 | 7,86 Gb + 7,82 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Romance
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:42:03 | 7,86 Gb + 7,82 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal clavicle bone has been found to complete his brontosaurus skeleton, a project four years in the construction. He is equally excited about his imminent marriage to his assistant, the officious Alice Swallow, who is interested in him more for his work than for him as a person. David needs the $1 million endowment of wealthy dowager Mrs. Carleton Random to complete the project. Her lawyer, Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs to get in his favor. However, whenever David tries to make a good impression on Peabody, the same young woman always seems to do something to make him look bad. She is the flighty heiress Susan Vance. The more David wants Susan to go away, the more Susan seems not to want or be able to. But David eventually learns that Alexander Peabody is her good friend…
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When I watch screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby," there is a certain part of me that laments the fact that our culture has become so jaded and cynical that a movie like this could never be made again.
Oh sure, there have been some attempts in the last ten to twenty years, most notably two Madonna vehicles: "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and "Who's That Girl?" (1987), the second of which is an awful, thinly disguised modern update of "Bringing Up Baby." Peter Bogdanovich, always in love with classic films, tried to resurrect the genre in the early '70s with "What's Up, Doc?" (1972), but it just didn't catch hold. Some argument can be made that the TV show "Moonlighting" was inspired by screwball comedies, but that series ended almost a decade ago.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/45/8a/00238a45_medium.jpeg)
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Nowadays, people want their comedy open, obvious, and graphic. The enjoyment gleaned from fast-paced, rhythmic verbal exchanges and double-entendres simply won't satisfy audiences anymore. Instead, screwball has morphed into grossness, with the undeniably hilarious "There's Something About Mary" being the most obvious example. But, despite the humor of movies of that sort, they lack the sophisticated charm and the imaginatively unreal essence of the screwball films that made them so unique and enjoyable.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/46/8a/00238a46_medium.jpeg)
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Along with "It Happened One Night" (1934), Howard Hawks' "Bringing Up Baby" is perhaps the most memorable screwball comedy. There is a touch of irony in that statement, because the movie was a complete bomb when it was first released. In fact, in a survey of theater managers, the lead female star, Katherine Hepburn, was labeled "box office poison." Hepburn plays Susan Vance, a zany (is there any other word to describe her?) heiress who becomes fixated on the bespectacled David Huxley (Cary Grant). David is a stuffy, overworked zoologist who's engaged to an even stuffier female zoologist who doesn't want "domestic entanglements" like honeymoons, sex, and children to get in the way of their marriage.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/47/8a/00238a47_medium.jpeg)
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Through a series of coincidences, misadventures, and planned schemes over the course of two days, Susan works her way into David's life, completely throwing it out of whack. For the first part of the film, it seems like everything between them is merely a happenstance. However, once Susan finds out that David is getting married the next day, everything she does is arguably in the pursuit of keeping him away from his wedding date in New York. In this way, Susan is the essence of the liberated, strong, and wily woman that characterized the screwball comedies.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/48/8a/00238a48_medium.jpeg)
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She and David first meet on a golf course when David is trying–in his own clumsy way–to woo a corporate lawyer into donating $1 million to his museum. The lawyer represents the actual donor, a wealthy woman named Elizabeth (May Robson), who happens to be Susan's aunt. By the time the movie reaches its zenith, it has incorporated a big-talking game hunter named Major Horace Applegate (Charlie Ruggles), a small, yapping dog named George that steals a precious dinosaur bone David needs to complete a brontosaurus skeleton, and a tame leopard, the "Baby" of the title.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/49/8a/00238a49_medium.jpeg)
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Like the majority of screwball comedies, "Bringing Up Baby" is distinctly American and distinctly upper class in nature. It takes place in a suburban world of golf courses, expensive hotels, museums, and large houses with lots of land. The slapstick pranks framed in these settings take on entirely different meanings than if they had been framed in the kind of harsh, poor environments–city ghettos, rural farms, etc.–that characterized the world-wide Depression of the era. Instead of being social critique like the Chaplin films, the screwball comedies were pure escapism. People with monetary problems sought the movie houses for escape, and what better escape when you're in dire straits that to laugh at those better off than you?![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/4a/8a/00238a4a_medium.jpeg)
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But the magic of "Bringing Up Baby" can hardly be confined to the period in which it was made. Although it wasn't a box office hit when it was first released in 1938, it has gained status and popularity in the years that have passed. It is now seen as one of the essential films of the classic Hollywood era, with outstanding if sometimes crazy direction by Howard Hawks, and truly memorable performances by everyone involved.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/4b/8a/00238a4b_medium.jpeg)
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Of course, much of the movie's fun is more in listening to it than watching it. The superb dialogue by screenwriters Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde is delivered with perfectly timed wit and sharpness by Hepburn and Grant. The tone and rhythm of their petty bickering, with Grant scolding and Hepburn generally misunderstanding everything he says, is an art form in and of itself. The physical comedy, including Grant trying to hide Hepburn's exposed backside when she tears her dress and Grant parading about the house in a frilly woman's robe because Hepburn has stolen his clothes, is only icing on the cake.![Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/4c/8a/00238a4c_medium.jpeg)
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Incidentally, the scene with Grant in the woman's robe is regarded as the first instance where the word "gay" was used to connote homosexuality in a product of popular culture (when asked why he's wearing the robe, Grant jumps up in a fit of frustration and blurts, "Because I just went gay all of a sudden!"). The only reason the censors let it remain in the movie is because they didn't know what the word "gay" meant in that context.
Only the most jaded of cynics could see "Bringing Up Baby" and not walk out in a good mood. It takes place in a world this is distinctly out own, and yet, it has never existed. In essence, it is what the magic of the movies is all about–transporting us to another time and place, but allowing us to see ourselves nonetheless.
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) [2-Disc Special Edition]
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Special Features:
Disc One:
- The Film
- Audio commentary by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Howard Hawks Trailer Gallery (11:53): Bringing Up Baby, Sergeant York, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo
Disc Two:
- "Cary Grant: A Class Apart" documentary (86:58)
- "The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks" documentary (55:00)
- "Campus Cinderella" comedy short (18:24)
- "A Star Is Hatched" cartoon (8:08)
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