BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
restored comedy with soundtrack, 109 minutes.
Tickets: $25/$20
General seating - not reserved or numbered
(T 0419 267 318)
“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 style by director Howard Hawks.”
A timeless gem about which critics and audiences agreed, one of the most hilarious comedies ever made.
Hawks employed special effects which were state of the art at the time to incorporate the leopard into the action, breakneck pacing, overlapping dialogue, the timeless allure of Hepburn and Grant and wonderful support actors, including NSW born pair, May Robson, Australia’s first Oscar nominee, and Billy Bevan. And lest we forget: Asta the dog and Nissa the leopard play key roles.
Tickets: $25/$20
General seating - not reserved or numbered
(T 0419 267 318)
“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 style by director Howard Hawks.”
A timeless gem about which critics and audiences agreed, one of the most hilarious comedies ever made.
Hawks employed special effects which were state of the art at the time to incorporate the leopard into the action, breakneck pacing, overlapping dialogue, the timeless allure of Hepburn and Grant and wonderful support actors, including NSW born pair, May Robson, Australia’s first Oscar nominee, and Billy Bevan. And lest we forget: Asta the dog and Nissa the leopard play key roles.
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Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street
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Sydney NSW 2000
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STATE LIBRARY NSW - 7 July 2024 - Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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