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Bringing Up Baby (Original title)
Date: 1938 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Production company billing: ©1938. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. [logo] an RKO Radio picture RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents Howard Hawks' production of... [end] [logo] RKO Radio Pictures In Black & White MPAA: 3752
Synopsis: Comedy of romance between a professor of zoology and a feckless society girl who has a tame leopard.

Genres:
Comedy, Romance

Subjects:
Fossilization and preservation of animals, Leopards, Bones
Releases
Date: 18 February 1938Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Length: 9166 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 15 August 1938Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9167 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 1997Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 102 mins Language: English
Date: 1999Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 103 mins Language: English

Credits (33)
©: Inc. RKO Radio Pictures, an RKO Radio picture: RKO Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures presents: RKO Radio Pictures, Associate Producer: Cliff Reid, [Unit Manager]: George Rogell, [Production Manager]: J.R. Crone, Assistant Director: Edward Donahue, Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Screenplay: Hagar Wilde, From the story by: Hagar Wilde, Photographed by: Russell Metty, [Camera Operator]: Charles Burke, Special Effects by: Vernon L. Walker, Edited by: George Hively, Art Director: Van Nest Polglase, Associate [Art Director]: Perry Ferguson, Set Dressing by: Darrell Silvera, Gowns by: Howard Greer, [Make-up]: Mel Berns, Musical Director: Roy Webb, [Sound] Recorded by: John L. Cass, Sound System: RCA Victor System, [Double for Cary Grant]: Jimmy Dundee, [Double for Katharine Hepburn]: Helen Thurston, [Stand-in for Katharine Hepburn]: Mimi Doyle, Patsy Doyle, [Stand-in for Cary Grant]: Mal Merrihugh, [Stand-in for Barry Fitzgerald]: Ed Rochelle, [Stand-in for May Robson]: May Warren, [Stand-in for Fritz Feld]: Bill Knudsen, [Stand-in]: Jack Morton, [Nissa's Trainer]: Madame Olga Celeste
Cast (38)
Katharine Hepburn (Susan Vance), Cary Grant (David Huxley), Charlie Ruggles (Major Horace Applegate), Walter Catlett (Constable Slocum), Barry Fitzgerald (Gogarty), May Robson (Aunt Elizabeth), Fritz Feld (Dr. Fritz Lehmann), Leona Roberts (Mrs. Hannah Gogarty), George Irving (Alexander Peabody), Tala Birell (Mrs Lehmann), Virginia Walker (Alice Swallow), John Kelly (Elmer), D'Arcy Corrigan ([Professor La Touche]), Buster Slavin ([Peabody's caddy]), Billy Benedict ([David's caddy]), George Humbert ([Louis, the headwaiter]), Terry Moore ([hat check girl]), Billy Bevan ([Joe, bartender]), Jack Gardner ([delivery man]), Nissa ([Baby, the leopard]), Stanley Blystone ([doorman]), Garry Owen ([butcher]), Skippy ([George, the dog]), Richard Lane ([circus manager]), Pat West ([Mac]), Frank Marlowe ([Joe]), Eleanor Peterson, Geraldine Hall, Evelyn Eager ([circus performer]), Ward Bond ([motorcycle cop]), Ernest Cossart ([Joe, the bartender]), Jack Carson ([roustabout]), Adylin Ashbury ([Mrs. Peabody]), Maxine Martel, Jeanne Martel ([cigarette girl]), Edward Gargan, Buck Mack ([zoo official]), Pat O'Malley ([deputy])