The movie: "Bringing Up Baby"
Where you can watch it: HBO Max
The pitch: David Huxley is a fussy paleontologist doing his best to handle increasingly strange situations, all caused by a beautiful and eccentric young heiress named Susan Vance. Starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn as the ridiculous romantic pair, it was sadly a commercial flop, in large part due to Hepburn being declared "box office poison" by the Independent Theater Owners of America only a short time before its release. The movie has thankfully earned a reappraisal in the years since, as Howard Hawks' madcap direction and Grant and Hepburn's incredible onscreen chemistry makes this one of the funniest romantic comedies ever made. It's also absolutely filthy, with more sneaky dirty jokes packed in than anyone can really catch on a single viewing.
"Bringing Up Baby" is a mile-a-minute screwball romance where all of the characters are totally...
Where you can watch it: HBO Max
The pitch: David Huxley is a fussy paleontologist doing his best to handle increasingly strange situations, all caused by a beautiful and eccentric young heiress named Susan Vance. Starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn as the ridiculous romantic pair, it was sadly a commercial flop, in large part due to Hepburn being declared "box office poison" by the Independent Theater Owners of America only a short time before its release. The movie has thankfully earned a reappraisal in the years since, as Howard Hawks' madcap direction and Grant and Hepburn's incredible onscreen chemistry makes this one of the funniest romantic comedies ever made. It's also absolutely filthy, with more sneaky dirty jokes packed in than anyone can really catch on a single viewing.
"Bringing Up Baby" is a mile-a-minute screwball romance where all of the characters are totally...
- 1/18/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
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“I Can’T Give You Anything But Love, Baby”
By Raymond Benson
It boggles this reviewer’s mind that Bringing Up Baby, released in early 1938, was considered a “flop” at the time. Was it really, or is that Hollywood PR nonsense? The truth is that it did fine, but perhaps not as well as the studio, Rko, had hoped. Shortly before its release, the Independent Theater Owners of America had deemed star Katharine Hepburn (and other popular leading ladies) “box office poison.” This bit of nastiness may have had an impact on Baby’s earnings in 1938.
The movie was re-released in the early 40s after the success of The Philadelphia Story (1940) and did much better. When television began broadcasting Bringing Up Baby, the picture’s reputation shot through the roof. Today, it’s considered one of Hollywood’s greatest screwball comedies, and fans...
“I Can’T Give You Anything But Love, Baby”
By Raymond Benson
It boggles this reviewer’s mind that Bringing Up Baby, released in early 1938, was considered a “flop” at the time. Was it really, or is that Hollywood PR nonsense? The truth is that it did fine, but perhaps not as well as the studio, Rko, had hoped. Shortly before its release, the Independent Theater Owners of America had deemed star Katharine Hepburn (and other popular leading ladies) “box office poison.” This bit of nastiness may have had an impact on Baby’s earnings in 1938.
The movie was re-released in the early 40s after the success of The Philadelphia Story (1940) and did much better. When television began broadcasting Bringing Up Baby, the picture’s reputation shot through the roof. Today, it’s considered one of Hollywood’s greatest screwball comedies, and fans...
- 7/16/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone (Episode #99): “Young Man’s Fancy” (airdate 5/11/62) The Plot: A newly-minted husband brings his wife to his childhood home to make plans to sell it, but a powerful force is drawing him back to his late mother and the house she kept exactly as it was when he was in short pants. The Goods: This very well may be the second cruelest episode. Aside from the wicked heartlessness of Time Enough At Last, it rings out with a kind of empty meanness that doesn’t teach a lesson while it tortures an innocent bystander at her weakest point. Sometimes life can be that way, and Virginia Walker (Phyllis Thaxter) learns that the raw way. Virginia...
- 11/4/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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