Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film which tells the story of a scientist who winds up falling in love with a woman who tricks him into caring for a leopard, named Baby. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald and May Robson.

Trivia

The movie was considered a box office bomb which caused Howard Hawks to be fired from his next RKO film and forced Katharine Hepburn to have to buy her contract out. As time went by the movie gained more and more attention and is now considered a classic and continues to generate revenue for Katharine Hepburn's estate.

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Howard Hawks - RKO - Estate

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The film was also the first film to use the word "gay" in reference to homosexuality. The line occurs when David (Cary Grant) cannot find clothes to wear after Susan (Katharine Hepburn) sends his clothes into town to be dry cleaned. He is forced to wear a negligee, making him look rather foolish. When asked why he is wearing such clothes he leaps in the air and exclaims "Because I just went gay all of a sudden!"

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Film - Gay - Homosexuality - Negligee

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The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, was #97 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #14 on its 100 Years, 100 Laughs, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Entertainment weekly also voted the film #24 on its list of the Greatest Films.

Related Topics:
Internet Movie Database - American Film Institute - National Film Registry

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