Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director (Rutgers Films in Print) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813513405 ISBN 13: 9780813513409

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes. Bringing Up Baby features Katharine Hepburn as a flaky heiress and Cary Grant as an absentminded paleontologist, roles in which they come into their own as stars and deliver particularly fine comic performances. Pauline Kael has called the film the "American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy." The comparison is based on the quick repartee and witty dialogue, a hallmark of Hawks's work and well conveyed here by Gerald Mast's transcription from the screen.

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Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0813513405
• ISBN 13: 9780813513409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Mast Professor Gerald