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Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby.
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Bringing Up Baby, American screwball comedy film, released in 1938, that is widely considered a classic of its genre.
The zany narrative begins when eccentric heiress Susan Vance (played by Katharine Hepburn) meets and repeatedly embarrasses bookish paleontologist Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant) while he is attempting to impress the representative of a potential donor to the museum where he works. Though David tells Susan that he is scheduled to get married the next day, she decides to pursue him anyway. In the morning, she persuades him to help her take care of a pet leopard named Baby that her brother has sent from Brazil. After David grudgingly agrees to drive Susan, with Baby in the backseat, to the Connecticut home of her aunt Elizabeth (May Robson), a number of farcical events ensue. For example, David is forced to wear a woman’s dressing gown; Susan’s dog steals and buries a rare dinosaur bone David has been carrying; and Susan uncages a vicious circus leopard that she has mistaken for Baby. Eventually the pair winds up in jail, though they are soon released. Sometime later Susan visits the museum to return the bone and promises David a $1 million donation, upon which David—whose fiancée has left him—relents and declares his love for her.
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•Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
•Director and producer: Howard Hawks
•Writers: Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde
•Music: Roy Webb
•Katharine Hepburn (Susan Vance)
•Cary Grant (Dr. David Huxley)
•Charlie Ruggles (Maj. Horace Applegate)
•Walter Catlett (Constable Slocum)
•Barry Fitzgerald (Aloysius Gogarty)
•May Robson (Aunt Elizabeth Random)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Bringing Up Baby: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett. While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
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- Comedy
- Howard Hawks
- 1938-02-18
Bringing Up Baby. Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity.
- Susan Vance
“Bringing Up Baby” is a classic screwball comedy film released in 1938, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The film is considered one of the best comedies of all time and has achieved iconic status in the world of cinema.
Bringing Up Baby is a screwball comedy about a paleontologist, David Huxley , involved with a scatterbrained woman, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), and a tame leopard named Baby (Nissa the Leopard).
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn team up for the second time in Howard Hawks' 1938 screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby (Their first film together was Sylvia Scarlett, 1935). Cary Grant plays the stodgy Dr. David Huxley, a paleontologist who is trying to get funding for his museum, marry his secretary and complete work on a fossil, all on the ...
