what screwballs could you like, if you don't like those two?
See above
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
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megan walker - Mar 09, 2010 5:19:24 pm PST #7188 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
quester - Mar 09, 2010 5:20:56 pm PST #7189 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Holiday has the same thing going for it that Bringing up Baby does: Hepburn and Grant. My OTC.
megan walker - Mar 09, 2010 5:22:13 pm PST #7190 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I love Hepburn, I just find her character in Bringing Up Baby annoying in the extreme.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 5:22:45 pm PST #7191 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Actually, I do too, megan. But Cary Grant and Baby make it up to me.
P.M. Marc - Mar 09, 2010 5:43:26 pm PST #7192 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sorry, JZ. The Lady Eve made me twitch and want to throw things.
It's no Nothing Sacred.
I do love Bringing Up Baby, though, so we can meet in the middle.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 6:19:29 pm PST #7193 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I thought Heath Ledger was a brilliant idea as the Joker before it happened, FTR. So there.
I prefer to believe them.
Fred Pete - Mar 10, 2010 5:58:25 am PST #7194 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Third the sentiment that Hepburn plays (quite well, I do admit) a very annoying character in Bringing Up Baby. Second that Grant's comedic timing makes up for it.
A brilliant lesser-known screwball -- It's Love I'm After. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis play a famous but long-bickering stage couple who are invited to a country estate for the weekend -- and the daughter of the house (Olivia de Haviland) falls hard for Howard's character. With Eric Blore almost stealing the show as a valet.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 6:27:47 am PST #7195 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love Katherine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby. Her character and Cary Grant's are both very broad and cartoony to serve the plot but they commit to it totally and have a lot of fun.
Bringing Up Baby is a farce more than a comedy and it doesn't bear scrutiny. You just have to roll with the ridiculousness.
Vonnie K - Mar 10, 2010 6:49:41 am PST #7196 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I regret to inform you that you are all freaky alien people whose brains are filled with wrongness.
I'm with JZ in general arm-flailage and muttering "but... but... it's Lady freakin' EVE!"
My favourite Grant/Hepburn is actually Holiday, but I wouldn't call that film a screwball comedy. It's too melancholic. Who was it that wrote that great piece about the appeal of Holiday on Salon? It was probably Stephanie Zacharek or Laura Miller. Or that woman whose name I'm memfaulting on who used to write a lot about Buffy. Judith someone?
Kathy A - Mar 10, 2010 6:52:44 am PST #7197 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember seeing My Man Godfrey in college (they showed classic films in the union on Wednesday nights--first time I saw Dr. Strangelove and lots of other films, too). Really liked it, and it was fun seeing William Powell in his heyday, instead of just as the doc in Mr. Roberts.