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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!

7.5(1,136)19381h 42m7

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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Behind the camera

Director

Howard Hawks

Produced in

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

Frequently asked questions

Bringing Up Baby was released on 18 February 1938.

Audience reviews

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  • 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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/20/2022

    7/10

    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…

  • L

    Lucas Firmo

    1/5/2023

    10/10

    Absolutely fantastic, best comedy ever because it's timeless

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    6/1/2024

    9/10

    **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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