Bringing Up Baby
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. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.
Plot
David Huxley is a mild-mannered paleontologist. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone: the "intercostal clavicle." Adding to his stress is his impending marriage to Alice Swallow and the need to impress Elizabeth Random, who is considering a million-dollar donation to his museum.
More details
author | Dudley Nichols Hagar Wilde |
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contentLocation | Connecticut |
director | Howard Hawks |
editor | George Hively |
genre | comedy |
keywords | act after show big cat brazil brontosaurus clavicle golf course hear hide jail jilt leopard paleontologist paleontology the awful truth think want warn wed zoologist |
musicBy | Roy Webb |
producer | Cliff Reid Howard Hawks |
productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures |
publisher | RKO Radio Pictures |
recordedAt | California |
theme | animals comedy of remarriage romantic comedy screwball comedy |