Bringing Up Baby is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The movie tells the story of a paleontologist winding up in various predicaments involving a woman with a unique sense of logic and a leopard named "Baby". The supporting cast includes Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, and May Robson. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde that originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. David Huxley is a... mild-mannered paleontologist beleaguered by problems. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone . To add to the stress, he is about to get married to a dour woman, Alice Swallow with a severe personality and must make a favorable impression upon a Mrs. Random , a wealthy woman who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. The day before his planned wedding, David meets Susan Vance by chance on a golf course.
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| Release date: | February 16, 1938 |
| Directed by: | Howard Hawks |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Producer: | Howard Hawks |
| Editor: | George Hively |
| Music by: | Roy Webb, Jimmy McHugh |
| Cinematography: | Russell Metty |
| Screenplay by: | Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde |
| Estimated budget: | $1,200,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |