Talk:Bringing Up Baby

message: I'm pretty sure this should have been left at Bringing Up Baby (capital "U"). Generally accepted usage is that prepositions are capitalized if they're part of a verb phrase. —Chowbok 03:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: Talulah Gosh recorded a song based on this film.  See Backwash_%28album%29. Asat 02:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: There is a considerably large section in this article discussing the history of the word "gay."  I don't think this is necessary.  This is an article about a movie, not about the history of the word.  Could we cut this down a bit?  Then people who want more information about the history of this word just go to the article on the topic.  JBFrenchhorn (talk) 07:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of the word in this movie is already in the Gay artilcle, probably it should expanded there rather than harped on too much here. It's an unresolved problem, because, of course in this period the term gay was very widely used in popular culture (The Gay Divorce, The Gay Falcon etc), and the dominant meaning of widely used phrases like "gay bachelor", "gay lothario" and "gay caballero" had nothing to do with homosexuality, but rather implied the opposite, a roving heterosexual lifestyle. Gay in a sexual context generally meant 'uninhibited'. In other words the full range of connotations at the time are difficult to clearly recover, expecially those that would have been intelligable to the avarage person in contemporary cinema audiences. These issues are surely best dealt with in the Gay article, with a relatively brief mention here. Paul B (talk) 12:56, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Why are you wearing a woman's negligée?! – "Because I turned HAPPY/MERRY/"roving heterosexual" all of a sudden!" – Suuuuuure! Furthermore, the line was ad-libbed by Grant, and thus an in-joke not intended to be understood by an "average person". HE knew what it actually meant, and everybody involved knew. His body language is unequivocal, too. -- megA (talk) 21:34, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "Gay" again

message: Leopards are from Africa and Asia, not Brazil. The only similar cat there is the jaguar. As I didn't see the movie I can't tell if it's "leopard" or "Brazil" that is a false claim in this article or if the movie misidentifies species or origin. Anybody can recognize which is which from body shape and dotting pattern on the fur. 78.14.230.249 (talk) 13:27, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it is a factual error in the movie. Hepburn's character quotes a letter from her brother, who sent it along with the leopard from Brazil.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.2.31.21 (talk) 01:14, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: No Leopards in Brazil

message: None of my sources contain any info, but something should be added about screenwriter Dudley Nichols being partly inspired by the real life romantic relationship between John Ford and Hepburn.--66.212.78.220 (talk) 19:47, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hepburn and John Ford 

message: I saw The Thin Man (film) yesterday and William Powell did a rather bad mimic and said "I'm feeling rather gay" or something and it was definitely meant in the same way that Grant meant it. That was four years before this.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:07, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First use 

message: Including the debate over the word "gay", this movie pushed some limits.  After the dog steals the Brontosaurus bone, Grant accuses Hepburn of stealing it, and after some mild "bone" double-entendres:
Grant: Was there somebody else in the room?
Hepburn: No, David, there was nobody else on the room, but... David, George.
Grant: Who's George?
Hepburn: The dog.  You know, pussy, dog, bone, dog, bone...
I don't know if this is an ad lib by Hepburn. I have a copy of this movie and I've listened to this many times, and that's what she said, as far as I can tell.
Not to mention... (earlier in the movie)
Grant: 'Yes, but I have to go to Carnegie Hall to meet Miss Swallow.
Hepburn: 'Miss... Swallow?
72.182.33.219 (talk) 20:50, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Even earlier, right at the beginning, Grant is contemplating a fossil bone and suggests it goes in the tail of the skeleton. Miss Swallow: "You tried it in the tail yesterday, and it didn't fit."
Yikes! Wastrel Way (talk) 00:12, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexual content 

message: Obviously there have been used two animals at least for shooting. The leopard in the car is a rear projection of a much larger animal than Nissa. Also when Hepburn's character is dragging the leopard into the jail a second leash is partially visible, suggesting there have been two shots combined. Actors in the 30's may have been more adventurous but certainly not stupid...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.2.31.21 (talk) 01:28, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filming 

message: I believe there is an error on the US release date of Nov. 23, '38. This article currently lists Nov. 23, '38 as the nationwide release date. If it premiered in San Francisco on Feb. 16, '38, that seems like a long delay for the film to be released in Nov '38. The American Film Institute lists Feb. 18, '38 as it release date, which sounds more logical. See this AFI entry: https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/6702  I recall reading somewhere that it premiered in NYC, but business was so bad, it was "lifted" for make way for "Jezebel" starring Bette Davis, which premiered in NYC on March 10, '38. See: Jezebel (1938 film)
Entertainment Buff 12:56, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You very well may be right. For now I've moved the wide release date below, and kept the "citation needed" tag. I wasn't sure if the AFI's February 18 release was taken from the "claimant" date of February 18, so it would be helpful if someone with deeper research skills than I could confirm that it was released around that time. But I agree that November 23 sounds suspicious. SweetTaylorJames (talk) 22:48, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you!!! Entertainment Buff 13:33, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Release of Nov. 23, '38 doesn't sound right. It premiered in San Francisco on Feb. 16, '38