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Bringing Up Baby (1938)

NR ★ 7.5/10 102 min Comedy, Romance United States English
Director: Howard Hawks
Screenplay by: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Story by: Hagar Wilde
Original Story: Hagar Wilde
Streaming: Not available
And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!

Description

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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Top Cast

Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn Susan Vance
Cary Grant
Cary Grant David Huxley
Charles Ruggles
Charles Ruggles Horace Applegate
Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett Constable Slocum
Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald Aloysius Gogarty
May Robson
May Robson Elizabeth Random
Fritz Feld
Fritz Feld Fritz Lehman
Leona Roberts
Leona Roberts Hannah Gogarty

Bringing Up Baby Appears on 22 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #883
AFI’S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
American Film Institute #88
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures #130
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #1080
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #299
Metacritics Top 250 Movies Of All Time
Metacritic #177
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #90
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Sight & Sound #109

Critic Curated

50 Greatest Films Of All Time By Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair #07
BBC Culture: 100 Greatest American Films
BBC #83
BBC Culture: The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
BBC #17
Indiewire's Greatest Romantic Comedies Of All Time
IndieWire #07
Paste Magazines Best Movies Of The 1930s
Paste Magazine #19
Rotten Tomatoes 300 Best Movies Of All Time
Rotten Tomatos #244
The Guardian: The Greatest Films of All Time
The Guardian #121
The Telegraphs 500 Must See Films
The Telegraph #44
Yahoo Movies 100 Movies To See Before You
Yahoo Movies #20

Filmmaker Curation

Bill Hader's Favorite Movies
Collider #38

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1930 1939 Films
Letterboxd #18
Showdown That Darn Cat
Letterboxd Showdown #18
Showdown The Big Heat
Letterboxd Showdown #18
The Top-Rated Movie of Every Year by Letterboxd Users
Letterboxd #24

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