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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"

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Love Is News *** (1937, Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 13,899

20th Century Fox’s 1937 black and white screwball romantic comedy film Love Is News stars Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Don Ameche. Director Tay Garnett’s 1937 20th Century Fox black and white screwball romantic comedy […]

Apr, 02

That Wonderful Urge **** (1948, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Arleen Whelan, Lucile Watson, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 13,898

20th Century Fox’s 1948 black and white screwball romantic comedy film That Wonderful Urge stars Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. it is a remake of the 1937 film Love Is News that also starred Power. Director Robert […]

Apr, 02

Eternally Yours *** (1939, Loretta Young, David Niven, Broderick Crawford, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 12,301

Most capable, attractive performances from Loretta Young and David Niven as sparring spouses enliven director Tay Garnett’s appealingly zany, above-routine 1939 screwball comedy film Eternally Yours. Young plays an American heiress married to Niven’s British […]

Sep, 09

The Doctor Takes a Wife *** (1940, Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 11,944

Director Alexander Hall’s 1940 Columbia Pictures American comedy film The Doctor Takes a Wife stars Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Gardiner, and Gail Patrick. It is based on a story by Aleen Leslie. […]

Feb, 19

Once More, My Darling *** (1949, Robert Montgomery, Ann Blyth, Jane Cowl) – Classic Movie Review 11,720

Director Robert Montgomery’s 1949 film Once More, My Darling is a charming, well-acted screwball romantic comedy about a cute young socialite Marita Connell (Ann Blyth) with stolen Nazi gems, who is wooed by high-powered attorney Collier […]

Nov, 12

Young Ideas **½ (1943, Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor, Elliott Reid, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 11,297

‘HERE COMES TROUBLE! MOTHER’S FALLEN IN LOVE AGAIN!’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 comedy Young Ideas stars Mary Astor and Herbert Marshall as a widowed lady novelist and a staid and stuffy, small-town college professor who […]

Jun, 12

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man **** (1939, W C Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 11,124

W C Fields stars as seedy circus owner Larson E Whipsnade: ‘Why, some of my best friends are snakes’…  The often extremely funny 1939 black and white madcap screwball comedy You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man […]

Apr, 22

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