Bringing Up Baby

by Howard Hawks

Book Overview

Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes. Bringing Up Baby features Katharine Hepburn as a flaky heiress and Cary Grant as an absentminded paleontologist, roles in which they come into their own as stars and deliver particularly fine comic performances. Pauline Kael has called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813513413
• ISBN13: 9780813513416
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"