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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]