Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).

In his book Still Me, Reeve says he based his interpretation of Clark Kent on Cary Grant's nerdy character in Bringing Up Baby.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) was listed number 97 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies.

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )

Sometimes screwball comedies feature male characters cross-dressing, further contributing to the misunderstandings ( Bringing Up Baby, I Was a Male War Bride, Some Like It Hot ).

Often this mismatch comes about because the man is much further down the economic scale than the woman ( Bringing Up Baby, Holiday ).

In Bringing Up Baby we find a rare statement on that, when the leading woman says, once speaking to someone other than her future husband: " He's the man I ’ m going to marry, he doesn ’ t know it, but I am.

Screwball comedies also tend to contain ridiculous, farcical situations, such as in Bringing Up Baby, in which a couple must take care of a pet leopard during much of the film.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell has noted that many classic screwball comedies turn on an interlude in the state of Connecticut ( Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth ).

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), d. Howard Hawks

( 1972 ), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O ' Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) and His Girl Friday ( 1940 ).

* Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In April 1937 he had read a short story by Hagar Wilde in Collier's magazine called Bringing Up Baby and immediately wanted to make a film out of it.

In total Bringing Up Baby was 40 days over schedule and $ 330, 000 over budget.

On its first run Bringing Up Baby made $ 715, 000 in the U. S. and $ 394, 000 in foreign markets, with a total of $ 1, 109, 000.

When he sold the company he kept the copyrights to six films, including Bringing Up Baby.

Since its release, the popularity of Bringing Up Baby has grown considerably, beginning with it being shown on TV in the 1950s.

In 1972 Peter Bogdanovich partially re-made the film as What's Up, Doc ?, which contributed to Bringing Up Babys growing reputation.

Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

Grant plays a scientist reminiscent of his character in Bringing up Baby, who creates a formula that increases his vitality.

The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing up Baby.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )

She played the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina ( 1936 ), Aunt Elizabeth in Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ), and a sharp-tongued Granny in A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )

Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role.

The wide-shouldered 6 ' 2 " Bond appears in more of the films on both the original and the tenth anniversary edition of the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies lists than any other actor, albeit always as a supporting player: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and The Searchers ( 1956 ).

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) uncredited

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant

On April 17, 1938, an absent-minded character in Rosie's Beau realized he was in the wrong place and climbed down into the first panel of Bringing Up Father, arriving in the living room of Maggie and Jiggs.

The dinosaur skeleton in the museum sequence is artificial ; it was obtained from storage at RKO Pictures where it had been constructed for Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ).

This series of programming, which lasted throughout the summer, brought classic films such as The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Sounder ( 1972 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), and 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1954 ) to a whole new generation of children and their families.

Nichols ' crowning achievement, though, was probably his collaboration with Hagar Wilde on the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), considered one of the funniest of the 1930s screwball comedies.

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) as George, The Dog ( credited as Asta )

* George, from Bringing Up Baby ( played by Skippy )

* Skippy, also known as Asta, starred in many films including The Thin Man ( film ) and Bringing Up Baby

At various times over the course of the series, Blanche mentions six different children, including two daughters ( Janet and Rebecca, both of whom appeared in the series ) and four sons ( three of them — Biff, Doug, and Skippy — were mentioned in the episode " Bringing Up Baby ," while the fourth, Matthew, was mentioned in the episode " To Catch a Neighbor " and made an onscreen appearance on an episode of The Golden Palace, played by southern comic Bill Engvall ).