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Bringing Up Baby (1938)

  • 1hr 42m
  • 91

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Howard Hawks

Writer:

Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde

Release Date:

Feb 18, 1938

Runtime:

1hr 42m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Cary Grant
  • Charles Ruggles
  • Walter Catlett
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • May Robson
  • Fritz Feld
  • Leona Roberts
  • George Irving
  • Tala Birell

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Metacritic

91
metacritic
Based on 17 Critics
7.6

USER SCORE (26)

Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Reviews
100

Damn, damn funny.

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Metacritic review by Angie Errigo
Angie Errigo
Empire
75

Bringing Up Baby has some delightfully comic sequences, for sure. But I’m less inclined to remember the dynamics of the gag than Grant and Hepburn’s timing.

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Metacritic review by Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine
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