

Bringing Up Baby
And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.1M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- prison
- donation
- museum
- zoo
- paleontologist
- leopard
- bone
- cross dressing
- black and white
- psychiatrist
- screwball comedy
- hilarious
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSan Francisco, California16 Feb 1938
- TheatricalNR18 Feb 1938
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU2 Mar 1938
BrazilBR
- TheatricalLIMDB7 Mar 1938
FranceFR
- TheatricalU1 Jan 1941
GermanyDE
- Theatrical618 Mar 1966
ItalyIT
- TVByoblu6 Dec 2022
JapanJP
- TheatricalG17 Aug 1939
SpainES
- TheatricalA20 Jan 1941
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Bringing Up Baby was released on 18 February 1938.
Audience reviews
4- D
daniel white
3/20/2016
A flop when it was first released in 1938 "Bringing up Baby" is now considered a classic in the screwball genre, a tribute it rightly deserves. Katharine Hepburn has never been funnier in her only foray into this type of zany comedy. And Cary Grant a master of both verbal repartee and skillful pratfalls is pure genius. The plot is both simple and yet defies description. Hepburn plays Susan Vance, a rich society ga…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/20/2022
God, I'm knackered.... The sheer pace of this frenetic comedy romance left me breathless without actually leaving my chair (except to turn up the oxygen!). Cary Grant is a typically inept dinosaur man who is just about to install the final bone in his magnificent skeleton of a something-o-saur and get married on the same day... Firstly though, he has to try and tap up the lawyer to a local bigwig for a $1m donation t…
- L10/10
Lucas Firmo
1/5/2023
Absolutely fantastic, best comedy ever because it's timeless
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/1/2024
**A striking comedy from the period between the world wars.** This film is a light comedy, very good-natured and full of twists, in which the life of a quiet paleontologist at a natural history museum is completely changed after meeting a volcanic and clumsy young woman. He is about to get married, he is waiting for a large donation to the museum from a rich old woman and he is unaware that the young woman is, in …
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