Bringing Up Baby Page #3

Synopsis: Mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal clavicle bone has been found to complete his brontosaurus skeleton, a project four years in the construction. He is equally excited about his imminent marriage to his assistant, the officious Alice Swallow, who is interested in him more for his work than for him as a person. David needs the $1 million endowment of wealthy dowager Mrs. Carleton Random to complete the project. Her lawyer, Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs to get in his favor. However, whenever David tries to make a good impression on Peabody, the same young woman always seems to do something to make him look bad. She is the flighty heiress Susan Vance. The more David wants Susan to go away, the more Susan seems not to want or be able to. But David eventually learns that Alexander Peabody is her good friend, who she calls Boopy, and Susan's Aunt Elizabeth, with whom David has also made a bad im
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Production: Turner Home Entertainment
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
NOT RATED
Year:
1938
102 min
3,017 Views


what can I do?

Go away.

No. I was here first.

- Then I'll go away.

- What, you...

Won't you just take the olive dish?

No, it's all right.

I'll sit here. You don't mind, do you?

- Not at all.

- This is rather difficult.

- I guess it is.

- Goodness.

Your face is familiar.

Haven't we met somewhere?

Not to my knowledge.

You're wrong. My name's Susan Vance.

I'm Dr. Fritz Lehman.

That's all right. You can sit down.

I don't mind at all.

- You may have heard me lecture.

- What do you lecture about?

I usually talk about nervous disorders.

I am a psychiatrist.

Oh, crazy people.

We dislike the use of that word.

All people who behave strangely

are not insane.

Is that so?

Would you mind if I asked your

professional opinion about something?

Not at all.

What would you say about a man

who follows a girl around...

and then when she talks to him,

he fights with her?

Fights with her?

Is the young man your fianc?

No. I don't know,

I never even saw him before today.

No, he just follows me around

and fights with me.

The love impulse in man very frequently

reveals itself in terms of conflict.

The love impulse?

Without my knowing anything about it...

my rough guess would be

that he has a fixation on you. A fixation...

Wait a minute, I can't remember

more than that. A fixation?

"The love impulse in man frequently

reveals itself in terms of conflict."

- That's right.

- I'm eternally grateful to you.

You're absolutely wonderful.

Thank you very much.

Do you know why you're following me?

You're a fixation.

I'm not following you.

I haven't moved from this spot.

Please, you're following me.

Don't be absurd.

Who's always behind whom?

My dear young lady,

I haven't been behind anything...

but what they call the eight ball.

I haven't been all day.

- You're angry, aren't you?

- Yes, I am.

The love impulse in man frequently

reveals itself in terms of conflict.

- Excuse me. The what impulse?

- Love impulse.

The trouble with you is that you have a...

Look, all I'm trying to do...

is find the gentleman whom,

thanks to you...

I abandoned on the golf course today.

That's all. Now please go...

Say, this isn't...

Where do you suppose I...

- Hold this a minute. I'll be right back.

- Yes.

Missed.

- I'm sorry I was so long.

- It's quite all right.

I had a very entertaining conversation

with a young lady who does tricks...

with olives when she gets it right.

Fritz, where's my purse?

I thought you had it with you.

No, I left it right here on the table.

- My diamond pin was in it.

- Your diamond pin?

You just lost a diamond pin.

We're going to find it, all right?

- Don't worry about it.

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Dudley Nichols

Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director. more…

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