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Bringing Up Baby 1938 Film | Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant



What's your review of the 1938 Film Bringing Up Baby? It's directed by Howard Hawks, and stars Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Nissa as Baby the leopard.


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About Bringing Up Baby


Alternative titles (from Letterboxd): La fiera de mi niña, Leoparden küsst man nicht, L'impossible monsieur bébé, Susanna, 魔胎, 管教贝贝, Hätä ei lue lakia, A Levada da Breca, 아이 양육, 베이비 길들이기


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Bringing Up Baby plot from IMDb: "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."


The trailer can be found online.


Cast and Characters:

Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance

Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley (alias Mr. Bone)

May Robson as Elizabeth Carlton Random, Susan's aunt

Charles Ruggles as Major Horace Applegate, a big-game hunter

Walter Catlett as Constable Slocum

Barry Fitzgerald as Aloysius Gogarty, Mrs. Random's gardener

Fritz Feld as Dr. Fritz Lehman, an affluent psychiatrist

Virginia Walker as Alice Swallow, David's fiancée

George Irving as Alexander Peabody, Mrs. Random's lawyer

Leona Roberts as Hannah Gogarty, Aloysius's wife and Mrs. Random's servant

Tala Birell as Mrs. Lehman, Dr. Lehman's wife

John Kelly as Elmer, Constable Slocum's assistant

D'Arcy Corrigan as Professor LaTouche

Billy Bevan as Tom, the barkeeper

Billy Franey as the butcher

Dick Lane as the circus manager

Ward Bond as a motorcycle policeman

Jack Carson as a circus roustabout

Skippy as George, Mrs. Random's dog

Nissa as Baby and the circus leopard


Directed by Howard Hawks

Screenplay by Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde

Story by Hagar Wilde

Based on Bringing Up Baby 1937 short story in Collier's by Hagar Wilde

Produced by Cliff Reid, Howard Hawks

Cinematography: Russell Metty

Edited by George Hively

Music by Roy Webb (musical director), Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields (original writers of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby)

Production company: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Release date: February 16, 1938 (Golden Gate Theatre)

Running time: 102 minutes

Budget: $1.1 million

Box office: $1.1 million

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