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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"
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The Birds and the Bees *** (1956, George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven) – Classic Movie Review 7921
Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 The Birds and the Bees is a Technicolor and VistaVision remake of the 1942 black and white gem The Lady Eve, this time with George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven […]
They All Kissed the Bride *** (1942, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Allen Jenkins, Andrew Tombes, Helen Parrish, Mary Treen) – Classic Movie Review 7804
Director Alexander Hall’s 1942 screwball comedy They All Kissed the Bride provides a typical powerful career woman role for Joan Crawford as Margaret Drew, who inherits her father’s trucking firm – and the only kind of […]
We’re Not Married! *** (1952, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Paul Douglas, Eve Arden, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mitzi Gaynor, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 7605
Director Edmund Goulding’s 1952 We’re Not Married! is an entertaining and enjoyable film made up of separate stories about five wedded couples from Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler’s well assorted stories, varying from funny to touching, with […]
The Young in Heart **** (1938, Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Minnie Dupree) – Classic Movie Review 7476
Director Richard Wallace’s 1938 The Young in Heart is a lovely, warm and very funny, typically Thirties-style screwball comedy about a family of likeable rogues, in this case loveable rogues. It is written by Paul […]
If I Had a Million **** (1932, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W C Fields, George Raft, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7,390
The 1932 comedy film If I Had a Million has a simple, well executed idea: a dying eccentric millionaire decides to give a million dollars to eight people picked at random from the phone book to […]
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 […]