A zany heiress tries to acquire the help of a timid palaeontologist in looking after her pet leopard. As she starts to fall for the bemused academic, she decides to stop him marrying his severe assistant, and accidentally endangers his efforts to get funding for his beloved museum. Screwball comedy, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, May Robson, Charlie Ruggles and Barry Fitzgerald.

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.