Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"

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Cafe Society *** (1939, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Claude Gillingwater, Jessie Ralph, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 8961

Director Edward H Griffith’s amusing 1939 screwball romantic comedy Cafe Society stars Fred MacMurray, who is paired in the first of four films with luscious blonde Madeleine Carroll, who plays a headstrong member of wealthy […]

Oct, 03

Christmas in Connecticut **** (1945, Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardner, S Z Sakall, Robert Shayne, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 8918

The 1945 screwball comedy Christmas in Connecticut is a deliciously sugary and very amusing Yuletide movie, starring Barbara Stanwyck. Director Peter Godfrey’s 1945 screwball comedy Christmas in Connecticut is a deliciously sugary and very amusing […]

Sep, 19

That Uncertain Feeling *** (1941, Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 8,851

Ernst Lubitsch remakes his 1925 silent movie Kiss Me Again as the 1941 film That Uncertain Feeling, a daft but witty comedy about an insomniac wife (Merle Oberon), who gets psychosomatic hiccups and consults a […]

Aug, 21

The Divorce of Lady X **** (1938, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 8685

Director Tim Whelan’s fun and carefree 1938 British screwball romantic comedy drama The Divorce of Lady X stars Laurence Olivier as barrister Everard Logan, a divorce lawyer who thinks widowed Lord Steele (Morton Selten)’s daughter […]

Jul, 08

Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] **** (1939, Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Tim Holt, James Ellison, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 8660

Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]

Jun, 29

Up in Arms *** (1944, Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore) – Classic Movie Review 8563

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1944 Up in Arms is a remake by The Samuel Goldwyn Company of Eddie Cantor’s 1930 hit Whoopee! this time starring Danny Kaye in his cinema feature film début (after four shorts […]

Jun, 07

Whoopee! **** (1930, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford, Spencer Charters, Albert Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 8562

Director Thornton Freeland’s 1930 early Technicolor musical Whoopee! showcases one of Eddie Cantor’s quintessential performances based on his hit Ziegfeld Broadway show as the hypochondriac shy guy Henry Williams, who makes romantic whoopee at a […]

Jun, 07

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