The Grand Illusion

Join us for this special fundraiser screening of Howard Hawks's classic screwball comedy, BRINGING UP BABY. The proceeds from your $25 ticket will go towards our relocation, plus you'll get to see one of the funniest movies ever made with an audience.

Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films of all time—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up—a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. BRINGING UP BABY’s sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks.

Part of our Farewell to 1403 series.

For all of our fundraiser screenings, if you see a “Sold Out” message on the ticketing page it means we sold all of our 68 seats. We’ll start a wait list for door sales, but no guarantees we’ll have extra tickets.

“If you catch me on the right day and ask what I think the best comedy of all time is, it’s very likely I’ll say it’s 1938’s screwball classic Bringing Up Baby.” Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com

“Hawks [keeps] his performers busy with a torrent of one-liners and physical comedy moves that only the extremely talented could even hope to grapple with. It’s perfect.” Phelim O’Neill, The Guardian

“Countless films have imitated Bringing Up Baby, but it is futile to look for its equal.” Angie Errigo, Empire Magazine