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Although it flopped at the box office when it was first released in 1938, Bringing Up Baby with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant is now recognized by critics as one of the best screwball comedies of all time. Who -- or what -- was the "Baby" mentioned in the title?
Baby was a full grown pet leopard owned by Hepburn's character, a rich and madcap heiress. Grant plays a stuffy scientist who catches her eye.
An aside: according to IMdB, Bringing Up Baby was the first major movie to use the word "gay" to mean "homosexual".
Baby was a full grown pet leopard owned by Hepburn's character, a rich and madcap heiress. Grant plays a stuffy scientist who catches her eye.
An aside: according to IMdB, Bringing Up Baby was the first major movie to use the word "gay" to mean "homosexual".