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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"
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Double Wedding **** (1937, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal) – Classic Movie Review 8559
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1937 screwball comedy Double Wedding stars the delightful William Powell and Myrna Loy in their seventh teaming, and they are totally at practised ease with the sophisticated slapstick of this very pleasing […]
Too Hot to Handle *** (1938, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 8,414
Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, Hollywood’s then reigning king and queen, bring their luminous presences to MGM’s 1938 romantic comedy adventure film Too Hot to Handle [Let ‘Em All Talk], a tale of a news […]
The Richest Girl in the World *** (1934, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray) – Classic Movie Review 8230
Director William A Seiter’s The Richest Girl in the World is a welcome forgotten movie from 1934, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Fay Wray. It is a bubbly little, typically Thirties, romantic screwball comedy […]
Bombshell **** (1933, Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Pat O’Brien, Una Merkel, Ted Healy) – Classic Movie Review 8061
Director Victor Fleming’s sparkling, fast-paced 1933 MGM classic screwball comedy Bombshell [Blonde Bombshell] is a witty satire on Hollywood, sending itself up with good humour. It may be ancient, but it is still relevant, and […]
The Horse’s Mouth ** (1958, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renée Houston) – Classic Movie Review 7997
Alec Guinness both plays the dedicated non-conformist London artist hero Gulley Jimson seeking his artistic ideal and writes the screenplay of director Ronald Neame’s lifeless, disappointing 1958 British film of Joyce Cary’s 1944 novel The Horse’s […]
No Time for Comedy *** (1940, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7951
Director William Keighley’s 1940 screwball romantic comedy No Time for Comedy stars James Stewart as comedy playwright Gay Esterbrook who scores a hit with his first Broadway play and then wants to write something heavyweight, […]
The Good Fairy **** (1935, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7948
Director William Wyler’s 1935 screwball romantic comedy The Good Fairy stars Margaret Sullavan as kindly but helpless young Budapest movie theatre worker Luisa ‘Lu’ Ginglebuscher, an orphaned usherette who attracts a quartet of admirers, in screen-writer […]