Bringing up Baby

Bringing up Baby

DVD - 2021

"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby's sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks"--Container....

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Subjects
Wilde, Hagar > Film adaptations.
Heiresses > Drama.
Femmes fatales > Drama.
Leopards as pets > Drama.
Paleontologists > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Screwball comedy films.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Screwball comedy films
Feature films
Comedy films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection [2021]
Language
English
Corporate Author
RKO Radio Pictures
Corporate Author
RKO Radio Pictures (production company)
Other Authors
Howard Hawks, 1896-1977 (film director), Dudley Nichols, 1895-1960 (screenwriter), Hagar Wilde (actor), Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003 (-), Charlie Ruggles, 1886-1970, Cary Grant, 1904-1986, Walter Catlett, 1889-1960, Barry Fitzgerald, 1888-1961, May Robson, 1858-1942, Fritz Feld, 1900-1993, Leona Roberts, 1879-1954, George Irving, 1874-1961
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; Full screen
Item Description
Title from credits.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938.
Based on the short story Bringing up baby by Hagar Wilde.
Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; new video essay on actor Cary Grant; new interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey; new interview with film scholar Craig Barron; new selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer; Howard Hark: A hell of good life, a 1977 documentary; audio interview from 1969 with Grant; audio excepts from 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich; trailer; plus: an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby monaural.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, George Hively ; music, Roy Webb.
ISBN
9781681438580
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