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Bringing Up Baby (1938) One of the most imitated of Hollywood movies. Stuffy paleontologist
Cary Grant is on the point of committing to an arid marriage to a bespectacled
dullard when dotty socialite Katharine Hepburn turns up and destroys
his life, as symbolised by the dinosaur skeleton he is assembling, making
way for their ultimate union. Animals keep causing trouble, as when
a dog steals and buries a vital prehistoric bone, and in the confusion
that ensues when Hepburn's tame leopard Baby is mistaken for a savage
escaped lookalike, prompting a classic scene in which Grant and Hepburn
have to serenade the wrong leopard. Reversing the formula of the classic
screen romance, this is about an aggressive woman who pursues an indifferent
man - the sissified Grant explains that he is kitted up in a very feminine
borrowed dressing gown because 'I suddenly went gay!' - and finally
wins him round to the joys of anarchy as opposed to stability. The script
is credited to Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde, but director Howard Hawks
was renowned for rewriting and improvising on the set, mainly to keep
his actors off balance. First Published In: Empire (issue unknown). Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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