Bringing Up Baby (U) + ScreenTalk with Peter Swaab

Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and a rather large lepoard (Baby) feature in this, the definitive screwball comedy from Howard Hawks.

Grant is Dr David Huxley, a paleantologist with a love of the quiet life, whilst Hepburn is the wealthy Susan who crashes into his life disrupting his plans to finish a monumental reconstruction of a brontosauras skeleton and win a $1million donation to his museum.

Madcap adventures ensue as David and Susan's lives become inextricably entwined.

USA 1938 Dir. Howard Hawks 102min.

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Peter Swaab

Author of the BFI Classics book, Bringing Up Baby, Peter Swaab has also edited the Penguin edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Collected Poems of Sara Coleridge and was the co-editor of Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film. He is currently a Reader at University College, London.
- Macmillan Books