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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby

Howard Hawks, 1938

Spine #1085

Picked by 4 guests

Comedy / Romance

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Howard Hawks

Written by Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde

Cinematography Russell Metty

Edited by George Hively

Cast Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts

Picked by

Elle Fanning

“This is good, Bringing Up Baby. I love Katharine Hepburn and I love that moment she... She walks away and her skirt is up and she has, like, a little underwear out and it’s, like, amazing physical comedy. Yeah, and amazing dialogue, very fast-paced. So this is a favorite of mine.”

Elle Fanning
Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki director

“I am going to start with this classic Bringing Up Baby by Howard Hawks, one of my all-time favorite movies. I used to write papers on this movie a lot when I was in film school and for people who've seen my films, particularly The Living End and Doom Generation... Living End is actually called an irresponsible movie by Gregg Araki because of this movie. There was some Robin Wood essay called The Lure of Irresponsibility that I read when I was in film school.”

Gregg Araki
Neal Brennan

“Bringing Up Baby. A great illustration of how men interact with women. Baby is a leopard that she brings with her everywhere she goes... And The Leopard represents femininity. And Cary Grant is just trying to figure out, how am I gonna deal with this woman? It's like a triple metaphor, basically. It's f*****g insane that 86 years ago, they made a movie where a woman brings a tiger everywhere she goes. And that represents femininity and a man interacting with it. Excellent. Good job.”

Neal Brennan
Halle Berry

“Bringing Up Baby. This is one of my favorites. This is Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hawks. This is a movie I saw over and over and over in my childhood. It has such a fast-paced comedy that is really fun to watch and I know it's very hard to do. I had so much respect for this as a kid growing up and this movie is one of the movies that really made me want to become an actor.”

Halle Berry