M: I've always known about Cary Grant and how he is a legend in the industry, and then of course there's his signature voice. But I never saw one of his movies. Also, I never knew he did comedy.
Baby was a funny movie, with a brand of well-timed, witty humor you don't see much today. I loved the quick-paced banter between Grant and Hepburn. I'd watch this one again.
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J: I think I've mentioned before that I don't know much about the great actors from the "golden age" of Hollywood. All of those tall, dark, and handsome types are the same to me. Except Clark Gable, because he had those ears. And a mustache. Anyway, I had never seen a
Gary Cooper Cary Grant film before so I didn't know what to expect. I have to tell you: the accent pulled me right out of the movie at first. That whole Trans-Atlantic, not-quite-British-but-not-quite-American thing is WEIRD. To someone with little exposure to it (outside of maybe Madonna and some SNL parodies), I had some trouble taking him seriously at first, because I thought it was a joke. M assured me it was not, that is how people talked back then. (I guess he would know because he was there because he is a hundred years old.) (He is not actually 100 years old, just far more cultured than I am. I grew up watching the WWF. What do you want from me?) But I eventually got used to the weird accents and this movie was a lot of fun. Katharine Hepburn played a nutjob disaster who leaves a trail of destruction behind her wherever she goes and
Gary Cooper Cary Grant played a flustered scientist/victim of KH's insanity. I laughed a lot and there was an adorbs leopard named Baby who, sadly, is probably dead because I looked it up and leopards only live to be about 25. In conclusion: I liked this movie.
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