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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Murder, He Says **** (1945, Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,113
‘IT’LL KILL YOU… WITH LAUGHTER!’ Director George Marshall’s 1945 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy thriller Murder, He Says is a twisted and hilarious combination of high camp and extremely black humour that is funnier […]
One Night in Lisbon *** (1941, Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Edmund Gwenn, Billie Burke, John Loder, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 11,097
’36 hours of love!…’ Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white screwball comedy One Night in Lisbon is the welcome and enjoyable if uninspired fourth and penultimate paring of the delightful Madeleine […]