Director Howard Hawks was instrumental in the development of screwball comedy, thanks to films such as TWENTIETH CENTURY, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, MONKEY BUSINESS and BRINGING UP BABY. The latter was the second of four films Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant made together. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

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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. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. The script was written specifical