Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"

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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

Call It a Day ** (1937, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, Frieda Inescort, Bonita Granville) – Classic Movie Review 10,093

Olivia de Havilland (21) has her first top billing in a movie in the frivolous 1937 comedy Call It a Day about a middle-class English family struggling with the romantic effects of spring fever during […]

Jul, 27

Lady by Choice *** (1934, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 9927

Incomparable 1930s players Carole Lombard and May Robson delight in director David Burton’s bubbly 1934 vintage comedy Lady by Choice about a fame-hungry fan-dancer, Alabam Lee (Lombard), who takes in a mean, drunken, down-at-heel old […]

Jun, 18

Too Many Husbands **** (1940, Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 9528

Director Wesley Ruggles’s attractive 1940 black and white screwball romantic comedy Too Many Husbands [My Two Husbands] stars Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas and Fred MacMurray. Columbia Pictures assembles a special cast to raise lots of […]

Mar, 19

Topaze **** (1933, John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason) – Classic Movie Review 9518

Director Harry d’Abbadie D’Arrast’s 1933 comedy remake Topaze stars John Barrymore and Myrna Loy, who head up a fine American version of the Marcel Pagnol story about a meek French teacher, Professor Auguste Topaze (Barrymore). […]

Mar, 16

Please Believe Me ** (1950, Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9363

Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]

Feb, 09

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