Bringing Up Baby Details

How sublime can movies get? This shimmering dissection of the male-female relationship is perfectly cast (Katharine Hepburn in a celebrated screwball role), brilliantly written by Hagar Wilde and Stagecoach's Dudley Nichols and fabulously well directed by Howard Hawks. It's a genuinely funny original that repays repeated viewings, especially to marvel at the variety of subtle expressions on the face of “Professor” Cary Grant, who gives one of the most wonderful comic performances ever to grace the silver screen. Regarded as too wacky by half on first release, it's now regarded as a classic. By the way, “Baby” is a pet leopard, as if you cared.

One of the finest screwball comedies ever, with Grant - a dry, nervous, conventional palaeontologist - meeting up... read more on Time Out