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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David Huxley canonical 6

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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 of America
surface form: 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 self-link
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 self-link
Aunt Elizabeth influences David Huxley
Susan Vance associatedWithCharacter David Huxley
Susan Vance romanticInterest David Huxley