Bringing Up Baby
Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up—a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby’s sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- New video essay on actor Cary Grant by author Scott Eyman
- New interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey
- New interview with film scholar Craig Barron on special-effects pioneer Linwood Dunn
- New selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer featuring costume historian Shelly Foote
- Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life, a 1977 documentary by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg featuring the director’s last filmed interview
- Audio interview from 1969 with Grant
- Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley and the 1937 short story by Hagar Wilde on which the film is based
New cover design by F. Ron Miller
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- New video essay on actor Cary Grant by author Scott Eyman
- New interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey
- New interview with film scholar Craig Barron on special-effects pioneer Linwood Dunn
- New selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer featuring costume historian Shelly Foote
- Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life, a 1977 documentary by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg featuring the director’s last filmed interview
- Audio interview from 1969 with Grant
- Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley and the 1937 short story by Hagar Wilde on which the film is based
New cover design by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Katharine Hepburn
- Susan Vance
- Cary Grant
- David Huxley
- Charles Ruggles
- Major Applegate
- Walter Catlett
- Slocum
- Barry Fitzgerald
- Mr. Gogarty
- May Robson
- Aunt Elizabeth
- Fritz Feld
- Dr. Lehman
- Leona Roberts
- Mrs. Gogarty
- George Irving
- Alexander Peabody
- Tala Birell
- Mrs. Lehman
- Virginia Walker
- Alice Swallow
- John Kelly
- Elmer
- Nissa the leopard
- Baby
- Asta
- George the dog
Credits
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Associate producer
- Cliff Reid
- Screenplay
- Dudley Nichols
- Hagar Wilde
- Based on the story by
- Hagar Wilde
- Director of photography
- Russell Metty
- Art direction
- Van Nest Polglase
- Editor
- George Hively
- Costumes
- Howard Greer
- Special effects
- Vernon L. Walker
- Music
- Roy Webb
A scene from Bringing Up Baby
