Review of Bringing Up Baby (1938) by Coco : — 06 Jul 2008

This classic 1938 screwball comedy from Howard Hawks, stars Katharine Hepburn (my favourite role of hers) as an extrovert socialite who should, in theory, be annoying as hell, but Cary Grant's straight-laced paloeontologist can't help but be sucked into her madcap world...

("Baby" turns out to be a pet leopard, by the way...).

Also famous for Cary Grant's ad libbed line, "Because I just went gay all of a sudden," long before the majority of the population had any idea of any sexual connotations of the word...