Film

Bringing Up Baby 1938

Directed by Howard Hawks

  • Comedy, Romance
  • 102 min
  • NR

And so begins the hilarious adventure of Professor David Huxley and Miss Susan Vance, a flutter-brained vixen with love in her heart!

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

ComedyRomanceprisondonationmuseumzoopaleontologistleopardbonecross dressingblack and whitepsychiatristscrewball comedyhilarious

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