Bringing Up Baby

Featuring the song, “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby” as sung to a young leopard, Bringing Up Baby is probably the fastest paced of the Thirties screwball comedies. Katharine Hepburn plays an irresponsible heiress who manages to unearth the hitherto hidden funny bone in placid paleontologist Cary Grant. Hawks has characterized the film as one in which “there were no normal people. Everyone you met was a screwball....”

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