Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained woman 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 Colliers Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.

David Huxley Cary Grant is a mildmannered 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 the dour Alice Swallow Virginia Walker and the need to impress Elizabeth Random May Robson, who is considering a milliondollar donation to his museum.The day before his wedding, David meets Susan Vance Katharine Hepburn by chance on a golf course. She is a freespirited young lady, and unknown to him at first Mrs. Randoms niece. Susans brother, Mark, has sent her a tame leopard from Brazil named Baby Nissa to give to their aunt. The leopard is native to Africa and Asia but not to South America. Susan thinks David is a zoologist rather than a paleontologist, and persuades David to go to her country home in Connecticut to help bring up Baby which includes singing I Cant Give You Anything But Love to soothe the leopard. Complications arise as Susan falls in love with David and tries to keep him at her house as long as possible to prevent his marriage. ........

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