Bringing Up Baby
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Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 film about a scatter-brained heiress who drags a mild-mannered scientist into helping her care for a leopard named Baby.
- Directed by Howard Hawks. Written by Hager Wilde and Dudley Nichols.
Susan Vance
[edit]- [limping after losing a heel] I was born on the side of a hill!
- [reading a letter about Baby] "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?
Dr. David Huxley
[edit]- Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments.
- When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run!
Dr. Fritz Lehman
[edit]- That brings out a sort of pear-shaped tone, you see?
Dialogue
[edit]- [David discovers the leopard in Susan's bathroom]
- David: Susan, you've got to get out of this apartment!
- Susan: I can't, I have a lease.
- Susan: [in tears] You mean you want me to go home?
- David: Yes.
- Susan: You mean you don't want me to help you any more?
- David: Yes.
- Susan: After all the fun we've had?
- David: Yes.
- Susan: And after all the things I've done for you?
- David: That's what I mean.
- Susan: Well, don't you worry, David, because if there's anything that I can do to help you, just let me know and I'll do it.
- David: [nervously] Well, er... don't do it until I let you know.
- [Susan and David are in jail]
- Susan: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
- David: When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell.
- [David is wearing a women's boa-collared negligee]
- Elisabeth: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
- David: These aren't my clothes!
- Elisabeth: Well, where are your clothes?
- David: I've lost my clothes!
- Elisabeth: But why are you wearing these clothes?
- David: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!
Cast
[edit]- Katharine Hepburn — Susan Vance
- Cary Grant — Dr. David Huxley
- May Robson — Aunt Elizabeth Random
- Fritz Feld — Dr. Fritz Lehman
- Virginia Walker — Alice Swallow
- D'Arcy Corrigan — Prof. LaTouche
External links
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- Bringing Up Baby quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Bringing Up Baby at Rotten Tomatoes