Bringing up Baby

DVD 2021

"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine 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 investment 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 bo...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Femmes fatales Fiction

Heiresses Fiction

Leopards as pets Fiction

Man-woman relationships Fiction

Paleontologists Fiction

More in this Genre:

Comedy films Feature films Fiction Romantic comedy films Screwball comedy films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1085 Criterion collection ; 1085 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681438580

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (102 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 1.0
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Other Title:

Bringing up Baby (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Based on the short story Bringing up baby by Hagar Wilde
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938
Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; new video essay on actor Cary Grant; new interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey; new interview with film scholar Craig Barron; new selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer; Howard Hark: A hell of good life, a 1977 documentary; audio interview from 1969 with Grant; audio excepts from 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich; trailer; plus: an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley
Title from container
Director of photography, Russell Metty ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; gowns by Howard Greer ; editor, George Hively ; music, Roy Webb
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 1.0
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

Contents:

Disc 1. Bringing up Baby (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

3082770

UPC:

715515261517

Other Authors:

Birell, Tala, 1908-1959, actor
Catlett, Walter, 1889-1960, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Feld, Fritz, 1900-1993, actor
Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961, actor
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor
Greer, Howard, costume designer
Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003, actor
Hively, George, director of photography
Irving, George, 1874-1961, actor
Kelly, John, 1901-1947, actor
Metty, Russell, editor of moving image work
Nichols, Dudley, 1895-1960, screenwriter
Polglase, Van Nest, 1898-1968, art director
RKO Radio Pictures, production company
Roberts, Leona, 1879-1954, actor
Robson, May, 1858-1942, actor
Ruggles, Charlie, 1886-1970, actor
Walker, Virginia, 1916-1946, actor
Webb, Roy, 1888-1982, composer (expression)
Wilde, Hagar, screenwriter
motion picture adaptation of (work): Wilde, Hagar. Bringing up Baby

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