Bringing Up Baby

I feel like reviewing something funny. What to watch, what to watch? I know, Leopards are funny. Let's watch Bringing Up Baby. So keep an eye out for any Leopards as I review Bringing Up Baby.

We start with a scientist named David (Cary Grant) who is assembling a brontosaurus skeleton. David is engaged to a woman named Alice (Virginia Walker) and they are getting married the next day. David goes to play golf with a man named Mr. Peabody (George Irving) who is the lawyer for a woman who might be donating $1,000,000 to the museum that he works at. But a woman named Susan (Katharine Hepburn) keeps destracting him by sitting in his car and she starts driving away with it, so David chases after it and tells Mr. Peabody that he will be with him in a minute. David goes to see Mr. Peabody for lunch. But Susan accidentlly gets him to steal a purse and he leaves the restaraunt before he can see Mr. Peabody. Susan drives David to Mr. Peabody's house but when trying to get his attention by throwing rocks at his house they accidently knock him out. The next day David gets a call from Susan saying that she has a Leopard named Baby (Nissa) that her brother Mark caught and gave to her. She asks if David would like to help her take it over to her house in Connecticut. Initialy he says no but she tricks him into it. They make it to the house and David wants to leave but Susan is intent on making him stay.



As it so happens, David brought a package that he got in the mail which is the last bone of the dinosaur he is assembling, and Susan's dog George (Astra) steals it and buries it. So David and Susan follow around George trying to find the bone. Meanwhile Susan's Aunt Elizabeth (May Robinson) shows up and starts asking questions about David. Susan tells her that his name is Bone and that he is a big game hunter who is recovering from a nervous break down. Also as it happens, Elizabeth is the woman who was going to donate the money to the muesam. That night a real big game hunter named Major Applegate (Charles Ruggles) comes over for dinner and asks David a lot of questions but doesn't pay attention to him and David continues to follow George. Baby escapes and the gardner, Mr. Gogarty (Barry Fitzgerald), sees Baby and tells everybody but they think he is drunk. David goes to call the zoo to take Baby away. But it turns out that Baby was a gift for Elizabeth, so Susan and David have to go out to catch them before the zoo workers do. Meanwhile at a local circus an actual dangerous leopard is being taken away. But Susan and David spot it, thinking it is Baby, and break it out of the cage, but it runs off. So now two Leopards are on the loose.

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Meanwhile Major Applegate and Gogarty are trying to shoot Baby but David and Susan tell them that Baby is harmless, so they put their gun away. But then the dangerous Leopard scares them. They track down the Leopard to the roof of a house but the man in the house thinks they are crazy and they end up getting arrested. Susan tells the Constable (Walter Cattlett) who she is but when the constable calls Elizabeth she thinks Susan is in bed. As soon as Elizabeth hangs up Major Applegate tells Elizabeth what happened, so they head over to the police station. But the police don't believe them because they were just on the phone. When the Constable calls home the maid says that everyone is in bed. So Elizabeth, Applegate, and Gogarty are arrested. Susan pretends to be a gangster and tricks the police into letting her go. But the circus men come in and inform everyone about the escaped Leopard. Just then Baby comes in but David tells them it's a different Leopard. Then Alice and Mr. Peabody come in and tell the Constable about the whole thing. But then Susan comes in with the dangerous Leopard and it breaks loose. Fortunetly David locks it in a jail cell. A week or two later, Alice decides against marrying David bur Susan tells David that they found the dinosaur bone and Elizabeth is donating the million dollars to the mueseam. The End.

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Bringing Up Baby is a great movie. Most of the points in this movie go to the Comedy which is amazingly written and timed and probably has one of the funniest endings ever. The fact that they managed to train a Leopard is pretty cool and Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn give great performances. So if you want a screwball comedy that will have you laughing, pick up Bringing Up Baby. See you next time.