Comedy ·Romance · United States of America · 1938 · 1h 42m

Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby poster
Director
Howard Hawks
Cast
Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance Cary Grant as David Huxley Charles Ruggles as Horace Applegate Walter Catlett as Constable Slocum Barry Fitzgerald as Aloysius Gogarty May Robson as Elizabeth Random
Crew
Russell Metty — Director of Photography George Hively — Editor Roy Webb — Original Music Composer Dudley Nichols — Screenplay Hagar Wilde — Screenplay Hagar Wilde — Story
Tagline

And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!

Synopsis

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

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Mood & Themes
prisondonationmuseumzoopaleontologistleopardbonecross dressingblack and whitepsychiatristscrewball comedycelebratory
Key Collaborators
Howard Hawks Director Russell Metty Director of Photography George Hively Editor Roy Webb Original Music Composer Dudley Nichols Screenplay Hagar Wilde Screenplay Hagar Wilde Story Howard Hawks Producer Howard Greer Costume Design
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