Bringing Up Baby (1938)

[randy_byers]

Amazingly enough, I hadn't seen this movie before. It's a romantic comedy, so stalking behavior is considered cute. Something Almodovar has drawn on in his screwball soap operas. And I had no idea that this was an RKO picture, with sets by Van Nest Polglase, who also did production design for the Astaire-Rogers musicals and Citizen Kane.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I'll probably get this wrong, but my favorite lines:

"Let's go back inside."

"Yes, it's awfully cold out here without a gun."

Among many others.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually posed as a question: "Don't you find it a bit chilly without a gun?"

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

You are correct, sir!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

How about that? The one vintage movie you hadn't seen, I had.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

There's probably more. I have by no means worked my way through the canon of old Hollywood films. Lots of Capra I haven't seen, for example, although I have seen It's A Wonderful Life. But not Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington or It Happened One Night, etc.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

I love Bringing Up Baby, I really do (although my favorite Hepburn/Grant movie, even though it's a little more uneven, is the lesser-know Holiday). However, if you've never seen It Happened One Night, you must rush out right now and find it. It didn't win all those Academy Awards for nothing...

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I've added It Happened One Night to my Netflix queue. Holiday is another one I haven't seen, along with The Philadelphia Story, both directed by George Cukor. On the other hand, I'm doing pretty well on Preston Sturges movies. I've added Hawks' His Girl Friday to my queue too. Netflix is so darned convenient that way.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

The Philadelphia Story is my favorite movie of all time. I envy you the opportunity to see it, and It Happened One Night, for the first time.

[mrhedgehog.livejournal.com]

Ok, but you have seen The Women or? Otherwise it should be number one in your queue, in my very firm opinion. Actually, it's not at all unreasonable to watch it every month...

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't, so I just added it to my queue too. My question in return is whether you've ever seen Stage Door. That one's a lot of fun too, but then I love Ginger Rogers. (Hm. Hadn't noticed that it was based on an Edna Ferber play. Hollywood sure liked Ferber.)

[mrhedgehog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think I have seen Stage Door, but it was many years ago. I would love to see it again. I just found out today that my cable company will drop TCM, and we don't have have anything like Netflix.

[mrhedgehog.livejournal.com]

"Because I just went gay all of a sudden! "

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if anyone would recognize that.