Reviews of Bringing Up Baby

celluloid wit

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 27 April 2008 11:57 (A review of Bringing Up Baby)

This is probably the best screwball comedy ever! The laughs are real, almost disguising its analyses of 1930s-style gender expectations, sex and marriage.

My favorite scene is when Cary Grant wears a feathery feminine bathrobe; this scene contains one of the first popular appearances of the word “gay” being used to mean something other than “extremely happy”; and it is truly hilarious.

This is definitely one of the true masterpieces of celluloid wit.


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