Bringing up Baby /
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| Edition: | Two-disc special ed. |
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| Imprint: | [Atlanta] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005. |
| Description: | 2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | DVD Video |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6628480 |
| Summary: | Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a golf outing with his potential benefactors, Huxley is spotted by Susan Vance (Hepburn) who decides that she must have the reserved scientist at all costs. She uses her pet leopard, Baby, to trick him into driving to her Connecticut home, where a dog wanders into Huxley's room and steals the vital last bone that he needs to complete his project. The real trouble begins when another leopard escapes from the local zoo and Baby is mistaken for it, leading Huxley and Susan into a series of harebrained and increasingly more insane schemes to save the cat from the authorities. Inevitably, the two end up in the local jail, where things get even more out of hand: Susan pretends to be the gun moll to David's diabolical, supposedly wanted criminal. Naturally, the mismatched pair falls in love through all the lunacy. Director Howard Hawks delivers a funny, fast-paced, and offbeat story, enlivened by animated performances from the two leads, in what has become a definitive screwball comedy. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi |
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| Item Description: | Videodisc release of the 1938 motion picture. Based on the story by Hagar Wilde. Special features: (disc one) scene selection; commentary by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; movie trailer gallery; (disc two) two documentaries: "Cary Grant: a class apart" and "Who made the movies: Howard Hawks"; comedy short "Campus Cinderella"; cartoon "A star is hatched." |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby Digital, mono. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, George Hively; music, Roy Webb. |
| ISBN: | 0790765357 9780790765358 0780651308 9780780651302 |
