Review

Ana Ryseff

LA Honors

1/12/11

Bringing Up Baby Movie Review

In Howard Hawks Bring Up Baby Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant are vivacious and hilarious. The cute and clever dialogue in this movie is what makes it so special. Katherine Hepburn plays a role which calls for her to be senseless, and very, very tiring. Her timing was magnificent and Katherine can safely be called one of the greatest actresses of the 30’s and 40’s. Cary Grant played the role of a nerdy paleontologist, always getting flustered and often put into awkward situations. Other Characters include an Irish gardener, a small town sheriff, and two Brazilian leopards.

The film opens showing a big block sign that says Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History. Inside is the large cavernous museum with all of its artifacts and dinosaur bones. Attempting to finish the structure of the gigantic brontosaurus is Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant), who is a serious, nervous, and soon to be married paleontologist. Dr. David Huxley needs a million dollars for his museum and so he goes on a golfing trip with his potential benefactors. Huxley is spotted by Susan Vance who decides she must have the reserved scientist for herself.

Vance then tricks Huxley, by using her leopard, to drive her to her home in Connecticut. While in Connecticut a dog wanders into Huxley’s room and takes his bone that he needs to finish the brontosaurus with. However the real chaos doesn’t start until their leopard Baby is mistaken for the zoo’s escaped leopard. This sends Huxley and Vance on a series of crazy schemes. After all this lunacy the mismatched pair fall in love and all is happy.

The scenes in Bringing Up Baby were true quality and the actors did a magnificent job in pacing themselves throughout each scene. For a lot of the movie the pacing of the actors was in a single frame, they did this rather than cross cutting fast, and that way it didn’t seem so mechanical. The scenes flowed together smoothly and seemed to be very...