Geena Davis plays the title character: a pregnant, partnerless woman with a world of woes, in this film set in New York. Twenty minutes into the film she aimlessly follows a group of school children into the Metropolitan Museum and meets the love of her life played by Stephen Rea. It isn’t exactly love at first site (not for her anyway), but they have an interesting discussion about the painting “In a Café (Absinthe)” by Edgar Degas. This painting (which is actually at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and not at the Met) depicts a boozy old couple and looks to Angie “like a lot of marriages I’ve seen.” They proceed to get kicked out of the museum because she is eating crackers for nausea.

Stars: Geena Davis, Stephen Rea, James Gandolfini

Summary by IMDB

Angie lives in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she’s pregnant – by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she’ll have the baby; but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire close-knit neighborhood upside-down and starts Angie on a journey of self-discovery. On her way, she meets a new lover interest.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109129/

Great tunes and great dancing, but very dated ideas of museums. Ann Miller’s big tap number is aces, but Yikes!

Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett

Plot Write-up from IMDB

Gabey, Chip and Ozzie are among one wave of US Navy sailors from their ship on a twenty-four hour shore leave in New York City, where none of the three has ever been. With a forty-five year old guidebook in hand, Chip wants to see the sights, but gets sidetracked when he gets in the sights of smitten cabbie Hildy Esterhazy, who won’t let him go as long as he’s in the city. Ozzie, who is basically following his mates, may instead want to follow anthropologist Claire Huddesen, who is into prehistoric looking men like Ozzie. Unlike his two friends, Gabey purposefully wants to spend his time with a beautiful, sophisticated New York gal. He believes he’s found that girl, at least her photograph, when he sees a poster for the subway system’s newly crowned Miss Turnstiles for June, Ivy Smith, who he mistakenly believes is the belle of New York high society. Based on the bio on the poster, Gabey goes on a search for her. His two pals help him, but manage equally to spend quality alone time with their respective new female friends. The questions become if Gabey will be able to find Ivy, if so if she will give him the time of day, and if he would feel the same about her if he knew that she’s just a working girl from small town USA trying to make it in the big city. Through it all, the six get into one misadventure after another – largely based on Hildy’s long overdue cab and Ozzie causing a mishap at a museum – as they take in all New York City has to offer.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041716/

A hilarious turn by Cary Grant as a paleontologist working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (which is disguised here as the “Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History,” but uses the AMNH façade).

Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

Synopsis by IMDB

Bringing Up Baby is a screwball comedy about a paleontologist, David Huxley (Cary Grant), involved with a scatterbrained woman, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), and a tame leopard named Baby (Nissa the Leopard). Baby, in Susan’s temporary care, is a gift from Susan’s brother to their aunt Elizabeth (May Robson), who David hopes will make a large donation to his museum. David is about to marry Alice (Virginia Walker).

David is piecing together a brontosaurus skeleton that is missing one bone (the fictitious intercostal clavicle), which Susan’s dog, George (Asta from The Thin Man (1934)) steals and buries. David and Susan try to recover the bone and Baby, who got away. Meanwhile, a psychiatrist (Fritz Feld) believes that both of them are off their nut and have them put in jail. Susan escapes. While she’s gone, George leads Baby to the jail. A few minutes later Susan comes back with a leopard at the end of a rope, not realizing that it is not Baby, but a dangerous circus animal (also played by Nissa the Leopard). George corrals the wild leopard in one of the jail cells and saves the day.

Several weeks later, Susan finds David (who has been jilted by Alice because of her) working on his brontosaurus reconstruction at the museum. After giving him the missing bone (which she found by trailing George), she tells him she has persuaded her aunt to make the large donation. Against his advice, Susan climbs a tall ladder next to the dinosaur to be closer to him. When the ladder starts swaying dangerously, she climbs onto the skeleton. Before it collapses, David grabs her hand. Surveying the wreckage of his work, David gives up and admits that he cannot live without her.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947