BRINGING UP BABY
Put-upon paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) is feeling the pressure: his brontosaurus is just one intercostal clavicle away from completion, he has an important meeting coming up with donor prospect Elizabeth Random (May Robson) and his wedding to straitlaced fiancée Alice (Virginia Walker) looms. Then he meets kooky free spirit Susan (Katharine Hepburn). Before he knows what hit him, he's searching for her escaped pet leopard, Baby, through the wilds of Connecticut, and the missing dinosaur bone that her dog (comedic canine Skippy, better known as THE THIN MAN's Asta) has buried — and falling in love. A legendary flop when first released, Howard Hawks' energetic masterpiece has come to be seen as the definitive screwball comedy. DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR Dudley Nichols, from the story by Hagar Wilde. U.S., 1938, b&w, 102 min. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 102 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
Genre: Comedy
