Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 film about a scatter-brained heiress who drags a mild-mannered scientist into helping her care for a leopard named Baby.
 * ''Directed by Howard Hawks. Written by Hager Wilde and Dudley Nichols.

Susan Vance

 * [limping after losing a heel] I was born on the side of a hill!


 * [reading a letter about Baby] "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?

Dr. David Huxley

 * Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments.


 * When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run!

Dr. Fritz Lehman

 * That brings out a sort of pear-shaped tone, you see?

Dialogue

 * [David discovers the leopard in Susan's bathroom]
 * David: Susan, you've got to get out of this apartment!
 * Susan: I can't, I have a lease.


 * Susan: [in tears] You mean you want me to go home?
 * David: Yes.
 * Susan: You mean you don't want me to help you any more?
 * David: Yes.
 * Susan: After all the fun we've had?
 * David: Yes.
 * Susan: And after all the things I've done for you?
 * David: That's what I mean.


 * Susan: Well, don't you worry, David, because if there's anything that I can do to help you, just let me know and I'll do it.
 * David: [nervously] Well, er... don't do it until I let you know.


 * [Susan and David are in jail]
 * Susan: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
 * David: When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell.


 * [David is wearing a women's boa-collared negligee]
 * Elisabeth: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
 * David: These aren't my clothes!
 * Elisabeth: Well, where are your clothes?
 * David: I've lost my clothes!
 * Elisabeth: But why are you wearing these clothes?
 * David: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!

Cast

 * Katharine Hepburn — Susan Vance
 * Cary Grant — Dr. David Huxley
 * May Robson — Aunt Elizabeth Random
 * Fritz Feld — Dr. Fritz Lehman
 * Virginia Walker — Alice Swallow
 * D'Arcy Corrigan — Prof. LaTouche