---
title: 'Bringing Up Baby (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Howard Hawks'
released: '1938-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 102
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/bringing-up-baby-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Bringing Up Baby (1938)

1938 · 102 min · Romance · United States


## Synopsis

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 in April 1937.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Howard Hawks](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-hawks)
- **Producer:** [Howard Hawks](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-hawks), [Cliff Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/cliff-reid)
- **Screenplay:** [Dudley Nichols](https://cinepixo.com/people/dudley-nichols), [Hagar Wilde](https://cinepixo.com/people/hagar-wilde)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Roy Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-webb)
- **Director of Photography:** [Russell Metty](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-metty)
- **Editor:** [George Hively](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-hively-2)

## Cast

- [Leona Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/leona-roberts)
- [Tala Birell](https://cinepixo.com/people/tala-birell)
- [Dickie Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/dickie-moore-2)
- [George Irving](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-irving)
- [Charles Ruggles](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-ruggles)
- [Barry Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-fitzgerald)
- [Skippy](https://cinepixo.com/people/skippy)
- [Jack Carson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-carson)
- [Frances Gifford](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-gifford)
- [May Robson](https://cinepixo.com/people/may-robson)
- [John Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-kelly)
- [Walter Catlett](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-catlett)
- [Edward Gargan](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-gargan)
- [Katharine Hepburn](https://cinepixo.com/people/katharine-hepburn)
- [Cary Grant](https://cinepixo.com/people/cary-grant)

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