Daily Dialogue — September 15, 2017

David Huxley: Now don’t lose your head, Susan.
Susan Vance: My what?
David Huxley: Don’t lose your head!
Susan Vance: I’ve got my head, I’ve lost my leopard!

— Bringing Up Baby (1938), screen play by Dudley Nichols & Hagar Wilde, story by Hagar Wilde

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Babysitting, suggested by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Katharine Hepburn had one very close call with the leopard. She was wearing a skirt that was lined with little metal pieces to make the skirt swing prettily. When Hepburn turned around abruptly, the leopard made a lunge for her back. Only the intervention of the trainer’s whip saved Hepburn. The leopard was not allowed to roam around freely after that, and Hepburn was more careful around it from then on.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Okay, so Baby is a leopard. But technically, it still is ‘baby’-sitting. Great movie, if you haven’t seen it, put it on your list! Hepburn and Grant at tops in this film.