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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby

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

19387.51h 42m

Overview

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.

Directed by Howard Hawks
Written by Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Produced by Howard Hawks
Box OfficeBudget: $1.1M0

Top Cast

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Susan Vance

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

David Huxley

Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Horace Applegate

Walter Catlett

Walter Catlett

Constable Slocum

Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

Aloysius Gogarty

May Robson

May Robson

Elizabeth Random

Fritz Feld

Fritz Feld

Fritz Lehman

Leona Roberts

Leona Roberts

Hannah Gogarty

George Irving

George Irving

Alexander Peabody

Tala Birell

Tala Birell

Mrs. Lehman

Themes & Keywords

prisondonationmuseumzoopaleontologistleopardbonecross dressingblack and whitepsychiatristscrewball comedycelebratorycheerful

About Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a comedy, romance film released in 1938 exploring themes of prison, donation, museum, zoo, paleontologist, leopard. Directed by Howard Hawks, it stars Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles. 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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