Bringing Up Baby
Parenting an infant
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
The title plays on "bringing up" meaning both raising a child and the chaos of managing Baby, a pet leopard.
The film flopped initially but became a classic, defining the screwball genre's blend of romantic tension and rapid-fire absurdity.
- screwballDeceptive breaking pitch
- screwball comedyChaotic romantic film genre
- leopardSpotted African wild cat
- GrantFunds given officially
- comedyWork meant to amuse
Hepburn · Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · romantic comedy · dinosaur · bone · Connecticut · chaos · pratfall · zany · farce · madcap · intercostal · clavicle · heiress · paleontologist · slapstick · romance
- 1930s filmsGone with the Wind, King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, Snow White
- Screwball ComediesIt Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, Twentieth Century, fast-talking
- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
Bringing Up Babytragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
Wuthering Heights · melodrama · weepie · tearjerker · Gone with the Wind
bring, brings, bringer, baby, babies, babied, babying, babyish, babyhood