BRINGING UP BABY (1938) **1/2 Katharine Hepburn is brilliant, witty, gorgeous, insensitive to rationality-a pinnacle of the feminine virtues. Cary Grant is bumbling, uncomprehending, awkward, battling her every inch of the way-perhaps an unintentional metaphor for western civilization. The fatal flaw is that, even given her borderline sanity, there is no hint of a clue whatsoever as to why she would be interested in living in the same state as him, much less desperate to marry him. Beyond that the plot is full of great lines and improbable scenes, but so fatally saturated with gaps and incongruous leaps of faith that it eventually becomes clear that Hepburn is the only one on the set with any artistic sensibilities at all.
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