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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"
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By Candlelight *** (1933, Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Revier) – Classic Movie Review 7359
Frankenstein director James Whale has a whale of a time with his 1934 classy little screwball romantic comedy By Candlelight about a lady’s maid, Marie (Elissa Landi), who meets a butler/ valet Josef (Paul Lukas) on a train […]
Larceny, Inc *** (1942, Edward G Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Edward Brophy, Anthony Quinn, Jack Carson, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7297
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1942 Warner Bros crime comedy Larceny, Inc stars Edward G Robinson, who gives yet another bright and breezy performance in this lighthearted gangster spoof based on Laura Perelman and S J Perelman’s […]
Living It Up *** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7267
Director Norman Taurog’s free-wheeling 1954 Technicolor carefree screwball comedy Living It Up stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold as The Mayor, Fred Clark, Sheree North and Sig Ruman. Lewis plays Homer Flagg, […]
My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260
Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]
The Egg and I **** (1947, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Louise Allbritton, Richard Long) Classic Movie Review 7231
Co-writer/ producer/ director Chester Erskine’s 1947 Universal Pictures black and white screwball comedy The Egg and I is a warm and witty farm frolic that proved Claudette Colbert’s last big hit. It is written for […]
Merrily We Live ***** (1938, Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7205
Zany families were quite the thing in the Thirties. In My Man Godfrey (1936), a zany family hires a tramp to be a butler. But here in Merrily We Live (1938) a tramp (really a famous […]
Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204
Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]