Bringing Up Baby
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Director: Howard Hawks
Writer: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Producer: Howard Hawks, Cliff Reid
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby.
Trivia
- In March 1937 Howard Hawks signed a contract at RKO for an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din, which had been in pre-production since the previous fall.
- In April he read a short story by Hagar Wilde in Collier's magazine called Bringing Up Baby and immediately wanted to make a film from it, as it had made him laugh out loud.
- RKO bought the screen rights in June for $1,004, and Hawks worked briefly with Wilde on the film's treatment.
Filming Locations
- California
Previous Showings
21 Runs • 12 Festivals
33,753 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (March 10, 1938)
Original Run: March 10, 1938 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (21):
- March 10, 1938 (Thursday - Saturday)Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
- August 25 - 28, 1990 · 2,699 ticketsw/ Adam's Rib
- June 29 - July 3, 1991 · 1,913 ticketsw/ Holiday
- August 7 - 11, 1992 · 3,006 ticketsw/ She Done Him Wrong
- August 26 - 27, 1993 · 1,060 ticketsw/ The Philadelphia Story
- May 2 - 6, 1994 · 1,359 ticketsw/ His Girl Friday
- June 15 - 18, 1996 · 2,569 ticketsw/ The Philadelphia Story
- July 26 - 29, 1997 · 2,153 ticketsw/ The Philadelphia Story
- July 22 - 23, 1999 · 1,184 ticketssummer99w/ His Girl Friday
- March 8 - 21, 2002 · 3,342 ticketscg2-2002w/ The Awful Truth
- September 15 - 18, 2006 · 1,457 ticketsSummer 2006w/ Only Angels Have Wings
- June 15 - 17, 2007 · 1,785 ticketsKatharine Hepburnw/ The Solid Gold Cadillac
- June 19 - 22, 2009 · 1,706 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Holiday
- October 23 - 24, 2009 · 873 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ An Affair to Remember
- September 17 - 23, 2011 · 1,814 ticketsSummer 2011w/ An Affair to Remember
- April 27 - 29, 2012 · 972 ticketsHoward Hawksw/ Come and Get It
- March 13 - 15, 2015 · 1,146 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ This Is the Night
- June 29 - July 1, 2018 · 1,133 ticketsw/ The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- July 27 - 30, 2019 · 1,210 ticketsSummer 2019w/ Only Angels Have Wings
- July 1 - 2, 2023 · 1,161 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ She Done Him Wrong
- September 6 - 7, 2025 · 1,211 ticketsSummer 2025w/ His Girl Friday