Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Bumbling scientist Cary Grant and adorable socialite Katharine Hepburn lose a tame leopard (Baby), a dog and a dinosaur bone in a classic screwball comedy. They prove an excellent slapstick duo, especially when the back of Hepburn’s dress is ripped off.

d: Howard Hawks | imdb.com | trailer | Get behind me.

His Girl Friday (1940)

Newspaperman Cary Grant schemes to win back ex-wife and ex-reporter Rosalind Russell in the most delightful sort of romantic comedy — a world where love is expressed through verbal sparring and faster, faster dialogue that overlaps at the seams.

d: Howard Hawks | imdb.com | trailer | the whole movie