Classic Movie: Bringing Up Baby

Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up—a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby’s sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks. 

Screened at Taliesin in 1956 

Director: Howard Hawks
Production Year: 1938
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 102 minutes

Doors open at 6:00 PM. The film will start promptly at 7:00 PM. 

This film is presented in partnership with the River Valley Film Club.

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