What is Bringing Up Baby / His Girl Friday about?

Name: Bringing Up Baby / His Girl Friday
Genre: Comedy

Howard Hawks Double Feature: BRINGING UP BABY, 1938, RKO (20th Century-Fox), 102 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. Perhaps the most influential screwball comedy, with Katharine Hepburn letting her hair down as a madcap heiress and Cary Grant putting his up as an absent-minded zoologist she’s decided she’s in love with. With Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald. HIS GIRL FRIDAY, 1940, Columbia (Sony), 92 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. Considered the fastest comedy ever made, this remake of THE FRONT PAGE switches ace newsman Hildy Johnson to a woman (Rosalind Russell), while Cary Grant does a complete 180 from BABY as cynical editor Walter Burns. In a film comedy course, this would be Lesson #1.

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What is Bringing Up Baby / His Girl Friday about?: Howard Hawks Double Feature: BRINGING UP BABY, 1938, RKO (20th Century-Fox), 102 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. Perhaps the most influential screwball comedy, with Katharine Hepburn letting her hair down as a madcap heiress and Cary Grant putting his up as an absent-minded zoologist she’s decided she’s in love with. With Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY, 1940, Columbia (Sony), 92 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. Considered the fastest comedy ever made, this remake of THE FRONT PAGE switches ace newsman Hildy Johnson to a woman (Rosalind Russell), while Cary Grant does a complete 180 from BABY as cynical editor Walter Burns. In a film comedy course, this would be Lesson #1.