Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"

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Million Dollar Legs **** (1932, W C Fields, Jack Oakie, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Ben Turpin) – Classic Movie Review 10,451

‘Klopstokia… a far away country – Chief Exports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Imports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Inhabitants… Goats and Nuts.’ Director Edward F Cline’s 1932 Million Dollar Legs stars the irrepressible and […]

Oct, 22

The Devil and Miss Jones **** (1941, Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S Z Sakall, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 10,258

Director Sam Wood’s engaging, funny, charming 1941 vintage comedy The Devil and Miss Jones stars Jean Arthur as Miss Mary Jones, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn, who is good fun as the tycoon John P […]

Sep, 02

Pot o’ Gold *** (1941, James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt, Charles Winninger, Mary Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 10,244

Director George Marshall’s 1941 screwball comedy Pot o’ Gold [The Golden Hour] has the distinction of featuring James Stewart on the mouth-organ and performing ‘When Johnny Toots His Horn’ (written by Hy Heath and Fred Rose), which may […]

Aug, 30

The Male Animal **** (1942, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 10,228

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1942 Warner Bros black and white screwball comedy The Male Animal delightfully pairs Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland, actors usually more at home in serious dramas. Fonda stars as Tommy Turner, a […]

Aug, 26

Ever Since Eve * (1937, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,140

In 1937, the 40-year-old Marion Davies filmed her last movie, director Lloyd Bacon’s screwball romantic comedy Ever Since Eve, in which she plays an attractive young woman fed up having to quit job after job […]

Aug, 06

Cain and Mabel ** (1936, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,138

Marion Davies called for her previous co-star Clark Gable to support her again on the 1936 musical comedy film Cain and Mabel, and money was no object  – they literally raised the roof. Clark Gable […]

Aug, 06

The Golden Arrow ** (1936, Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry O’Neill, Ivan Lebedeff) – Classic Movie Review 10,095

Director Alfred E Green’s 1936 The Golden Arrow finds Bette Davis cast once again opposite George Brent, this time in a would-be frothy screwball comedy as a restaurant cafeteria cashier hired by a cosmetics firm’s […]

Jul, 27

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