Bringing Up Baby (1938)

The film Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, was released in 1938. RKO Radio Pictures distributed it. Katharine Hepburn as a flibbertigibbet heiress with a pet leopard named Baby leads a bookish paleontologist (Cary Grant) on a crazy pursuit from Manhattan to Connecticut.

Hepburn and Grant have such a live-wire, opposites-attract chemistry that it may blow the fuse in your home theater., the film has received acclaim from both critics and audiences. Bringing Up Baby was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,", and it has appeared on a number of best-of lists, including the American Film Institute's 100 greatest American films of all time list, where it is ranked 88th.

Detailed Information:
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald
Release date: February 16, 1938 (Golden Gate Theatre)
Running time: 102 minutes