Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American comedy film starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, and directed by Howard Hawks. Grant plays a paleontologist who keeps running into a rather odd woman played by Hepburn, who, among other things, owns a pet leopard named Baby. A box office flop in 1938, the film has come to be regarded as a classic.

Bringing Up Baby in "Shtetl Days"
Bringing Up Baby was one of two films Veit Harlan watched the evening after he'd undergone a circumcision. The other was Frankenstein. Despite being over a century old, dubbed into German, and filmed in black and white, Harlan was quite delighted with the zany comedy of Bringing Up Baby, although the next morning he did acknowledge that he was on strong painkillers while watching, and that might have skewed his perception.