BRINGING UP BABY / HIS GIRL FRIDAY Double Feature! Q& A Book signing w/ Jennifer Grant! July 29, 2011

Friday, July 29 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: Brand new Print! BRINGING UP BABY, 1938, 20th Century Fox, 102 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. Perhaps the greatest and most influential screwball comedy of all time, with Katharine Hepburn letting her hair down as a madcap heiress and Cary Grant putting his up as the absent-minded zoologist she’s decided she’s in love with. It just doesn’t get any funnier - or more frantic - than this. With Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld and screwball mascot Asta as George the dog. [35mm]
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HIS GIRL FRIDAY, 1940, Sony Repertory, 92 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. For decades considered the fastest comedy ever made, this frenzied remake of Hecht and MacArthur’s THE FRONT PAGE switches ace newsman Hildy Johnson to a woman (Rosalind Russell at her peak), while Cary Grant does a complete 180 from BABY as cynical editor Walter Burns. If you were teaching film comedy, this would be Lesson #1. The unparalleled cast includes Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Roscoe Karns, Cliff Edwards, John Qualen, Billy Gilbert and tons more. [35mm] Discussion following with Jennifer Grant. Book signing of Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant at 6:30 PM across the street at Every Picture Tells A Story.
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