Paper by Terry Gostow. Viewed on DVD. Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby is a perfect example of screwball comedy containing all the essentials of the genre: fast paced repartee, courtship, mistaken identity, the coupling of mismatched personalities with episodic hostility, a female character who masterminds the relationship, a male character who cross-dresses and highbrow attitude. … Continue reading Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938): USA