Bringing Up Baby

Director: Howard Hawks Howard Hawks

Overview

In director Howard Hawks' quintessential screwball comedy, a reserved paleontologist and a wacky heiress get swept up in a series of hilarious misadventures. Together they search for a rare prehistoric bone that her dog buried and try to recapture her escaped pet leopard Baby, falling in love along the way.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/26/2025
UPC:	0840418329696
Original Release:	1938
Rating:	NR
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Katharine Hepburn	Susan Vance
Cary Grant	David Huxley
Charles Ruggles	Maj. Applegate,Maj. Horace Applegate
May Robson	Aunt Elizabeth
Barry Fitzgerald	Mr. Gogarty
Walter Catlett	Slocum
Jack Carson	Roustabout
Ward Bond	Motorcycle Cop
Stanley Blystone	Doorman
John Kelly	Elmer
George Irving	Peabody
Tala Birell	Mrs. Lehman
Fritz Feld	Dr. Fritz Lehman
Leona Roberts	Hannah Gogarty
Virginia Walker	Alice Swallow
Edward Gargan	Zoo Official
Buck Mack	Zoo Official
Billy Benedict	Caddy
Buster Slaven	Caddy
Geraldine Hall	Maid
Frank Marlowe	Joe
Pat West	Mac
Richard Lane	Circus Manager
Frank M. Thomas	Circus Barker
Ruth Alder	Dancer
Pat O'Malley	Deputy
Adalyn Asbury	Mrs. Peabody
Judith Ford	Cigarette Girl
Jeanne Martel	Cigarette Girl
George Humbert	Louis, Headwaiter
Billy Bevan	Bartender
D'Arcy Corrigan	Professor La Touche
Jonathan Hale	Actor
Nissa	Baby the Leopard
Vernon Walker	Alice Swallow
Asta the Dog	George the Dog
Roy Webb	Composer

Technical Credits

Dudley Nichols

Hagar Wilde

Howard Hawks	Director,Producer
Dudley Nichols	Screenwriter
Hagar Wilde	Screenwriter
Vernon L. Walker	Special Effects,Special Effects
John L. Cass	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Linwood Dunn	Special Effects

Scene Index

	Introduction
	"Everything's Gonna Be All Right": The Making of Bringing Up Baby	3
	Howard Hawks: A Biographical Sketch	17
	Bringing Up Baby
	Credits and Cast	29
	The Continuity Script	33
	Script Variations	207
	"Bringing Up Baby," by Hagar Wilde	235
	Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries
	Interview with Joseph McBride	253
	Reviews
	New York Times, Frank S. Nugent	265
	Variety, "Wear"	266
	The New Republic, Otis Ferguson	268
	Commentaries
	The Auteur Theory	271
	Leopards in Connecticut	278
	Bringing Up Baby	294
	Filmography and Bibliography
	Hawks Filmography, 1926-1970	315
	Selected Bibliography	319