Celebrate Valentine’s Day with one of the original romcoms! 1938’s “Bringing Up Baby, ”starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn and directed by Howard Hawks, has long been considered a Hollywood classic. Along with “It Happened One Night” (1934) and “My Man Godfrey” (1936), it’s considered one of the films that established the screwball comedy genre. However, this was not always the case. Despite good reviews, “Bringing Up Baby” was a flop when it was released. Thanks to frequent showings on television, the movie found a new audience in the fifties and sixties. Film scholar Peter Swaab calls it “a timelessly classical comic narrative, exploring conflicts between civilisation and nature, rationality and insanity, middle-class inhibitions and aristocratic blitheness. And it is the epitome of film comedy, an anthology of comic types and devices, and one of the most seductively funny films ever made.” The madcap story tells of a hapless paleontologist (Grant) who meets a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) and soon finds himself dealing with a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem. But the plot is almost secondary to “Bringing Up Baby,” with the movie’s real strengths being its sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, giddy innuendo, and overall sense of comic chaos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Up_Baby The Hawaii Theatre and the Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation are offering the community a film series to provide seniors and other cinema lovers an opportunity to enjoy a morning of camaraderie with coffee, snacks, and a classic movie. Over the course of the year, we’ll present this series and offer tickets on a “pay what you can” basis. Lobby opens at 10:30 AM with complimentary sponsored coffee! Showtime is 11:30 AM.