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In fact, these directors incorporate some significant reversals of gender roles into their screwball comedies Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938) and The Lady Eve, where we find examples of weak, bumbling men being pursued by strong, compentent women.
Even Bringing Up Baby (1938) has a scene with David (Cary Grant) wearing a woman's negligee that is played for laughs but also reverses traditional gender roles and leaves him at the mercy of Susan (Katherine Hepburn).
In Bringing Up Baby (1938), for instance, Cary Grant's paleontologist is a sexless sobersides awakened into heterosexual desire as well as his own active masculinity by Katharine Hepburn's anarchic, frenetic Susan Vance, who restores sexual order—the production of proper heterosexual passion—as she chaotically disrupts narrative.
