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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"

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Living It Up *** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7267

Director Norman Taurog’s free-wheeling 1954 Technicolor carefree screwball comedy Living It Up stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold as The Mayor, Fred Clark, Sheree North and Sig Ruman. Lewis plays Homer Flagg, […]

Jul, 08

My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260

Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]

Jul, 06

The Egg and I **** (1947, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Louise Allbritton, Richard Long) Classic Movie Review 7231

Co-writer/ producer/ director Chester Erskine’s 1947 Universal Pictures black and white screwball comedy The Egg and I is a warm and witty farm frolic that proved Claudette Colbert’s last big hit. It is written for […]

Jun, 28

Merrily We Live ***** (1938, Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7205

Zany families were quite the thing in the Thirties. In My Man Godfrey (1936), a zany family hires a tramp to be a butler. But here in Merrily We Live (1938) a tramp (really a famous […]

Jun, 22

Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204

Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]

Jun, 21

Topper Returns **** (1941, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7203

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1941 black and white fantasy comedy film Topper Returns, based on the characters created by Thorne Smith, is the third and final entry in the series of films that began with the […]

Jun, 21

Personal Property *** (1937, Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 7197

Jean Harlow eclipses the rest of the cast (even though she was ailing and made only one more movie, Saratoga) in director W S Van Dyke II’s mild if amiable 1937 romantic comedy Personal Property, […]

Jun, 20

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