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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"
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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, just 21, has her first top billing in a movie in director Archie L Mayo’s frivolous comedy Call It a Day (1937), based on British writer Dodie Smith’s cosy 1935 play about […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
40 Pounds of Trouble *** (1962, Tony Curtis, Phil Silvers, Suzanne Pleshette) – Classic Movie Review 9197
Director Norman Jewison’s 1963 comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble stars Tony Curtis as Lake Tahoe casino boss Steve McCluskey, who befriends little girl ‘Penny’ Piper (Claire Wilcox) while dealing with an alimony detective, casino owner […]
Honeymoon in Bali *** (1939, Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 8962
Director Edward H Griffith’s 1939 Paramount Pictures screwball comedy music romance movie Honeymoon in Bali quickly reunites Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray, the stars of the same year’s hit Cafe Society, along with its director, […]