ShariLee

Between His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, I love both but Baby is my favorite of the two. I do love the references to real life in His Girl Friday like said early, when Grant says someone who looks like Ralph Bellamy. Also His Girl Friday is very fast paced, you have people talking at the same time on top of each other. In Baby you have that but to a less degree, it is more the person in the background instead of also talking like in His Girl Friday, is making facial gestures and body movements and saying things like "but" and they can't get a word in.

The past couple of days, TCM hasn't let me reply here. So hopefully this is working now. I think Hawks is to hard on himself. Yes there are no normal characters but people of that era loved The Marx Brothers and later the Three Stooges and they are not normal characters. After I read (a few years ago) that this movie bombed at the box office I asked my grandmother about it, she would have been a young adult at the time Baby was released. She said she loved it (but she also loved Cary Grant) but her friends hated it because they thought it was stupid. I love that the movie is all lunacy. I love screwball comedies and this one is my all time favorite. I never stop laughing and although I have seen the movie a 100 times I also find something new in the film.

Fortunately I own both His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, I will watch them again in the next few days. I knew Baby bombed at the box office but didn't realize Hawks felt the reason why might be because there is a fatal flaw in the film. Will have to watch this again and more closely to see if I agree and what I think it might be. Message was edited by: ShariLee