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- 1938
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1938
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
- 1938
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1938
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Bringing Up Baby
7.6
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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0% Mixed
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6% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
91
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The quintessential screwball comedy.
Time has revealed its brilliance, as well as the apparent impossibility of its like ever being seen again.
Hawks powers through all of this, keeping his performers busy with a torrent of one-liners and physical comedy moves that only the extremely talented could even hope to grapple with. It's perfect.
The director, Howard Hawks, keeps all this trifling nonsense in such artful balance that it never impinges on the real world; it may be the American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy.
I'd give this Howard Hawks perennial four stars (like everyone else) if I didn't find the climactic jailhouse scene so labored. [5 May 1989, p.3D]
After the first five minutes of the Music Hall's new show - we needed those five to orient ourselves - we were content to play the game called "the cliche expert goes to the movies" and we are not at all proud to report that we scored 100 per cent against Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde and Howard Hawks, who wrote and produced the quiz. Of course, if you've never been to the movies, Bringing Up Baby will be all new to you - a zany-idden product of the goofy farce school. But who hasn't been to the movies?
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
7.6
86% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
7.6
86% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures
Release Date Feb 18, 1938
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Approved
Genres
Tagline And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart! [Theatrical trailer.]
Awards
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
