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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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How sublime can movies get? This shimmering dissection of the male-female relationship is perfectly cast (Katharine Hepburn in a celebrated screwball role), brilliantly written by Hagar Wilde and Stagecoach's Dudley Nichols and fabulously directed by Howard Hawks. It's a genuinely funny original that repays repeated viewings, especially to marvel at the variety of subtle expressions on the face of “Professor” Cary Grant, who gives one of the most wonderful comic performances ever to grace the silver screen. Regarded as too wacky by half on first release, it's now regarded as a classic. By the way, “Baby” is a pet leopard, as if you cared. TS
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Running time
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102min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Classic Screwball comedy
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, from a short story by Wilde in Collier's
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Theatrical distributor
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Radio Pictures Ltd
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UK cinema certificate
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U
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