Bringing up Baby (1938) is one of the more famous of the "screwball comedies" coming out of the depression era. It is interesting to see what sort of films were created in the times of turmoil of the Great Depression. Bringing up Baby the sort of film America needed in these tough times, a funny, somewhat mindless, entertaining movie. The characters are well developed and the roles fit the parts quite well. Katherine Hepburn plays a character who is interrupting at the perfect moments throughout the film, her acting is superb throughout. Cary Grant plays a buttoned-up paleontologist who is about to get married. His role is one of the quite, reserved groom to be, a character many can relate with. The great part of the direction and acting in Bringing up Baby is the foil that the two actors create, at times it is almost hard to watch. For those unversed in older films (Pre-1950) it is hard to understand that there was always a comedic element to these early films. Comparing modern comedies to movies like Bringing up Baby one can see that the producers and directors of modern comedies, and almost all modern films, have learned a lot from the movies of the past. Relying only on witty scripts and solid acting old films like Bringing up Baby are timeless classics, not much can be said about the movies of our modern era.
Review of Bringing Up Baby
