Live Life Team
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring Cast: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles
Dr. David Huxley (Grant), a young palaeontologist due to be married in two days, and only one bone short of completing a precious dinosaur skeleton, hopes that, during a game of golf, he can convince a prospective benefactor to give him the money he needs to purchase the final bone. There he meets Susan Vance (Hepburn), a harebrained young socialite with a hyperactive dog called George, who first steals his golf ball and then his car. On getting to her home, they are greeted by Baby, a young leopard that Susan’s brother in Brazil has posted to her to look after.
Infatuated Susan’s ensuing chaotic behaviour revolves around her efforts to keep David with her and away from his fiancée, efforts which include pinching his clothes, dressing him in a frilly negligee and ordering him to keep Baby calm by singing the song “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” to it. In the end, everybody lives happily ever after, except the dinosaur, which didn’t quite make it.
For many Bringing Up Baby is the ultimate screwball comedy. All the key components are here – double entendres, quick fire delivery of clever dialogue, slapstick, and apparently intelligent people performing wacky scenarios. Although much admired today, upon its release Bringing Up Baby was a commercial and critical flop. In the course of time however, the movie has acquired the credit it had always merited and is today considered a classic.
