Screwball comedy
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Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, that satirizes the tr
Bringing Up Baby (1938) is a screwball comedy from the genre's classic period.
A still from a trailer for It Happened One Night
In The Lady Eve, Jean (center, played by Barbara Stanwyck) passes herself off as an upper-class woman.
A promotional photo for the 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday
Oscar (1991 film)
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Oscar is a 1991 American comedy film directed by John Landis. Based on the Claude Magnier stage play, it is a remake of the 1967 French film of the same name, but set in Depression-era New York City.
Screwball comedy
…Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), d. Pedro Almodóvar Oscar (1991) d. John Landis Sólo con tu pareja (1991), d. Alfonso Cuarón…
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