Female Stereotype?

It's the way most women were in Screwball Comedys. They were supposed to be as smart or even smarter then men. IDK if this was the first of all Screwball Comedys but its probly my favorite.

It all boils down to one basic rule: an attractive damsel in distress is too much for any man to resist reguardless of the situation it gets him in. This will always be true reguardless of the time a movie or story is written. Stereotype indeed, it is a law of nature.

You might want to check out His Girl Friday, if you haven't done so already...this and that one are two definitive screwball comedies, and both female leads act against the typical female stereotype of the time.

Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.

What's particularily great about "Bringing up Baby" is that the two leads are characters essentially cut from the same cloth; socially isolated, overeducated and scatterbrained. They are both too smart or savvy for life--too mentally capable, to the point where they think too much and don't DO enough. It's hilarious to see the two of them together. Katharine Hepburn's character in this film allows a woman to be intelligent but silly, too. Intelligence doesn't have to equal hyper-seriousness or lack of energy and spontaneity.