Bringing Up Baby (Criterion Collection)

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	Katharine Hepburn	Susan Vance
	Cary Grant	David Huxley
	Charles Ruggles	Major Applegate
	Walter Catlett	Slocum
	Barry Fitzgerald	Aloysius 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
	Ruth Adler	Minor Role
	Adeline Ashbury	Mrs. Peabody
	Asta	George the Dog
	William 'Billy' Benedict	David's Caddy
	Billy Bevan	Joe - Bartender
	Stanley Blystone	Doorman
	Ward Bond	Motorcycle Cop at Jail
	Ralph Brooks	Nightclub Table Patron
	Harry Campbell	Minor Role
	Jack Carson	Circus Roustabout
	D'Arcy Corrigan	Professor LaTouche
	William Corson	Minor Role
	Evelyne Eager	Circus Performer

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Director	Howard Hawks
Writer	Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Producer	Howard Hawks, Cliff Reid
Musician	Roy Webb
Photography	Russell Metty

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Bought with Beth for our anniversary, 2021


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.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
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, for the Blu-ray, the 1937 short story by Hagar Wilde on which the film is based

New cover design by F. Ron Miller

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