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I have recently discovered the "screwball comedy" genre of older movies, and I wish I had discovered it earlier. They are very enjoyable and funny movies. The genre lasted through the 1930s, and into the 1940s in its prime. Bringing Up Baby is one of those movies. Screwball comedies liked to feature battles of the sexes, and conflict between the classes. Another element of the Screwball Comedy was fast-paced dialog, like in His Girl Friday. It is actually the fast-paced dialog I like the most, it is very engaging, and makes the movie feel overly energetic and very boisterous -- similar to what Aaron Sorkin does with dialog today with TV shows like The West Wing, Sports Night and The Newsroom.Anyway, Bringing Up Baby features two of my favorite classic Hollywood era actors: Cary Grant, and Katharine Hepburn. This is the first movie I have ever seen Katharine Hepburn being so silly in! It was delightful to watch her being so over-the-top. I have never seen her in anything other than very dignified roles. She was absolutely stunning in this movie. Cary Grant was his usual stolid self, and plays a perfect straight-man.The movie is basically a story (told at breakneck speed) of a scientist (they call him a Zoologist, but he is clearly a Paleontologist) who is trying to get a rich lady to donate money to his museum. He runs into a girl on the golf course who causes him all sorts of trouble, and then accidentally steals his car, and makes him ruin his chances of impressing the wealthy lady's lawyer. The girl is smitten with him and contrives to break up his engagement so she can have him, and does everything she can think of to make him stay near her, including saddling him with a "tame" leopard her brother sent her (the "Baby" of the title of the movie). The results are hilarious madcap antics, social faux paus, mistaken identities, and all sorts of the comedy staples of the 1930s and 1940s.The movie contains no crimes against women, no extreme violence, no sadism, no nudity, and no strong language. The worst thing that happens is that Carry Grant's character stomps on Katharine Hepburn character's foot, on purpose, because he is mad at her (amazing what society thought was acceptable behavior between men and women back then). I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and laughed out loud in many of the scenes.5 stars.