Ranking The 25 Best Rom-Coms of All-Time

15. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

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Oh how I love Katharine Hepburn. Considered the greatest actress to have ever lived, here we see her playing the eccentric Susan Vance. Written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde, Bringing up Baby opens on Cary Grant’s absentminded paleontologist David Huxley. David is waiting the arrival of a rare bone he needs to complete a brontosaurus skeleton he’s been working on for four years. He’s about to be married, while simultaneously preparing to meet the lawyer of Mrs. Elizabeth Random — a wealthy woman who’s considering making a million-dollar donation to his museum. As he attempts to impress the lawyer, he continually gets undermined by the beautiful Susan Vance (who coincidentally turns out to be the niece to Mrs. Random). Although David tries to return to a life of normalcy, he keeps finding himself sucked into the vortex of chaos that surrounds Susan. It’s a touching film, and definitely a rom-com must see.