10 Classic Films That Actually Live Up To Their Legendary Status

10. Bringing Up Baby

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in Howard Hawks' romantic comedy about a palaeontologist and a ditsy young woman that keep on bumping into one another at the most unfortunate times, throw in not one but two Leopards and you're in for a laugh riot.

Grant's Dr Huxley and Hepburn's Miss Vance are the complete opposite of one another and she is constantly causing him to wind up in amusing, albeit, frustrating situations, which comes to a head with them both facing down an escaped wild Leopard.

One of the greatest things about watching Bringing Up Baby is just how much Grant and Hepburn clearly loved working together and their immediate chemistry on-screen. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks eat your heart out because when it comes to the dawn of romantic comedy, Bringing Up Baby is one of the chief architects and the standard set for all future films in the genre.

One imagines that Matthew McConaughey owes quite a few of his many millions of dollars to Howard Hawkes for making Bringing Up Baby a success and inventing the rom-com as we know it.