Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby, motion-picture comedy about an heiress, a leopard named Baby, a paleontologist, and a dinosaur bone, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Released in 1938, this film chronicles the misadventures of David Huxley (played by Grant) after he meets a high-spirited heiress (Hepburn) on a golf course. Huxley is at an important turning point in his life—he is about to get married, and he is almost done assembling a dinosaur he has been working on for several years. After the heiress’s dog runs off with one of the dinosaur bones and her pet leopard escapes, Huxley gets tangled in a series of ridiculous situations. Huxley and the heiress fall in love.

Director

• Howard Hawks

Cast

• Katharine Hepburn (Susan Vance)
• Cary Grant (David Huxley)
• Charlie Ruggles (Major Horace Applegate)
• May Robson (Aunt Elizabeth)
• Barry Fitzgerald (Mr. Gogarty)
• Walter Catlett (Constable Slocum)
• Fritz Feld (Dr. Fritz Lehman)
• Leona Roberts (Hannah Gogarty)
• George Irving (Alexander Peabody)
• Virginia Walker (Alice Swallow)
• Tala Birell (Mrs. Lehman)
• John Kelly (Elmer)
• Edward Gargan (Zoo official)
• Buck Mack (Zoo official)
• William Benedict (Caddy)
• Buster Slaven (Caddy)
• Geraldine Hall (Maid)
• Stanley Blystone (Doorman)
• Frank Marlowe (Joe)
• Pat West (Mac)
• Jack Carson (Roustabout)
• Richard Lane (Circus manager)
• Frank M. Thomas (Circus barker)
• Ruth Alder (Dancer)
• Ward Bond (Motorcycle cop)
• Pat O'Malley (Deputy)
• Adalyn Asbury (Mrs. Peabody)
• Judith Ford (Cigarette girl)
• Jeanne Martel (Cigarette girl)
• George Humbert (Louis, headwaiter)
• Billy Bevan (Bartender)
• D'Arcy Corrigan (Professor La Touche)
• Asta the Dog (George)
• Nissa the Leopard (Baby)

Awards

• Selected for Registry by the National Film Preservation Board (1990)

Quote

• David Huxley (to Susan Vance): 'Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but—well, there haven't been any quiet moments.'