David Huxley

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David Huxley is the mild-mannered, bespectacled paleontologist whose orderly life is upended by a free-spirited heiress in the classic screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
appearsIn Bringing Up Baby
appearsInGenre screwball comedy film
associatedWithAnimal Baby (leopard)
associatedWithCharacter Susan Vance
characterArchetype absent-minded professor
characterType comic lead
countryOfOriginWork United States
createdFor Bringing Up Baby
creator Dudley Nichols
Hagar Wilde
filmDirector Howard Hawks
filmLanguage English
filmProductionCompany RKO Radio Pictures
filmReleaseYear 1938
gender male
hasFullName David Huxley
loveInterest Susan Vance
medium feature film
narrativeRole protagonist
notableCharacteristic absent-minded
academically focused
bespectacled
occupation paleontologist
personalityTrait mild-mannered
orderly
portrayedBy Cary Grant
relationshipToAnimal reluctant caretaker of leopard Baby
romanticGenreElement romantic comedy
settingOfActivities Connecticut
New York
storyArc orderly life disrupted by free-spirited heiress
wears eyeglasses
workFocus dinosaur skeleton

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Bringing Up Baby mainCharacter David Huxley
David Huxley hasFullName David Huxley
Aunt Elizabeth influences David Huxley
Susan Vance associatedWithCharacter David Huxley
Susan Vance romanticInterest David Huxley