🔩 FILMS - SCREWBALL COMEDIES ----------------------------------------- 1934-1942 (core years); 1931-1956 (extended); post 1956 (debatable) - [x] Murder, He Says (1945) 7.0 91m * - [x] The Awful Truth (1937) 7.7 90m * - [x] Holiday (1938) 7.7 95m * - [x] Midnight (1938) 7.9 94m * - [x] Rhubarb (1951) 6.9 94m - [x] Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938) 7.2 85m - [x] Love Crazy (1941) 99m 7.4 - [x] Theodora Goes Wild (1936) 7.1 94m * - [x] I Married a Witch (1942) 7.1 77m * - [x] Remember the Night (1940) 7.6 94m * - [x] The Major and the Minor (1942) 7.4 100m * - [x] Libeled Lady (1936) 98m 7.8 ** - [x] Easy Living (1937) 7.5 88m ** - [x] Destry Rides Again (1939) 7.6 95m * - [x] Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) * 7.6 90m - buy - [x] Vivacious Lady (1938) 7.1 90m - [x] The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) 112m 7.5 hbo - [x] Unfaithfully Yours (1948) 7.5 105m * - buy - [x] Christmas in July (1940) 7.4 67m * - [x] The More the Merrier (1943) 7.7 104m - crit - [x] Cluny Brown (1946) 100m 7.5 * YouTube - [x] The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) 7.6 92m - buy amz - [x] My Favorite Wife (1940) 7.3 88m - [x] I Love You Again (1940) 99m 7.4 * - buy - [x] The Good Fairy (1935) 7.5 98m - [x] Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 7.8 115m - buy - [x] Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 118m 7.9 - buy - [x] Brewster's Millions (1945) 6.6 79m - kan - [x] What's Up, Doc? (1972) 7.7 94m --------------- - [ ] Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 6.3 100m - [ ] Another Thin Man (1939) 7.4 103m - [x] To Be or Not to Be (1942) 99m 8.2 - grit - [x] His Girl Friday (1940) 7.8 92m - [x] My Man Godfrey (1936) 8.0 94m - [x] It Happened One Night (1934) 105m 8.1 - [x] Brewster's Millions (1985) 6.5 102m - [ ] It's Love I'm After (1937) 7.4 90m - [ ] The Rage of Paris (1938) 7.0 78m - [ ] Adams' Rib (1949) 7.5 101m * - [ ] Pillow Talk (1959) 7.4 102m - [ ] Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) 7.6 101m - crit - [ ] Front Page (1931) 6.7 101m - crit - [ ] The Egg and I (1947) 7.0 108m - [ ] It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) 7.6 116m * hbo - [ ] The Seven Year Itch (1955) 7.1 105m - [ ] Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 7.6 94m - [ ] The Great McGinty (1940) 7.3 82m - [ ] Going My Way (1944) 7.0 126m - [ ] Topper (1937) 97m 7.2 - [ ] The Strawberry Blonde (1941) 7.2 99m - [ ] Love is the News (1937) 7.0 77m - crit - [ ] It Happens Every Spring (1949) 6.9 87m - crit - [ ] Me and My Gal (1932) 6.6 79m - crit - [ ] Whistling in the Dark (1941) 78m 6.7 - [ ] Four's a Crowd (1938) - [ ] Unfinished Business (1941) - [ ] Cain and Mabel (1936) - [ ] Larceny, Inc (1942) - [ ] Woman of the Year (1942) - [ ] The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) - [ ] The Talk of the Town (1942) - [ ] Love before Breakfast (1936) 6.2 70m - [ ] She’s Funny That Way (2015) - [ ] Mistress America (2015) - [ ] Flirting with Disaster (1996) - [ ] For Pete's Sake (1974) - [ ] Runaway Bride (1999) - [ ] Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - [ ] Night Owls (2015) - [ ] Our Idiot Brother (2011) - [ ] While We're Young (2014) - [ ] Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) - [ ] Role Models (2008) - [ ] Arthur (1981) - [ ] Working Girl (1988) - [ ] Seems Like Old Times (1980) - [ ] Carefree (1938) - [ ] Summer Rental (198 - [ ] My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) - [ ] Heavyweights (1995) - [ ] Mumford (1999) - [ ] The Big Store (1941) - [ ] I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) - [ ] Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) - [ ] The Horse's Mouth (1958) - [ ] Double Wedding (1937) - [ ] The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) - [ ] The Mad Miss Manton (1938) - [ ] Bean (1997) - [ ] The Butcher Boy (1917) - [ ] The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) - [ ] Housesitter (1992) - [ ] Runaway Bride (1999) - [ ] The Impostors (1998) - [ ] Good Burger (1997) - [ ] The Couch Trip (1988) - [ ] Modern Problems (1981) - [ ] Dinner for Schmucks (2010) - [ ] Rumor Has It... (2005) - [ ] It's Love I'm After (1937) - [ ] Stroker Ace (1983) - [ ] Mr. Jealousy (1997) - [ ] The Fortune (1975) - [ ] Laws of Attraction (2004) - [ ] Opportunity Knocks (1990) - [ ] Ladybugs (1992) - [ ] Who Was That Lady? (1960) - [ ] Comfort and Joy (1984) - [ ] Boeing Boeing (1965) - [ ] Blondie (1938) - [ ] Casanova Brown (1944) - [ ] True Confession (1937) - [ ] You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) - [ ] Too Many Husbands (1940) - [ ] Stand-In (1937) - [ ] You're Telling Me! (1934) - [ ] The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) - [ ] We're Not Married! (1952) - [ ] Love Is News (1937) - [ ] Breakfast for Two (1937) - [ ] The Young in Heart (1938) - [ ] If I Had a Million (1932) - [ ] The Gay Bride (1934) - [ ] Any Wednesday (1966) - [ ] Moscow Laughs (1934) - [ ] The Gilded Lily (1935) - [ ] Lost and Found (1999) - [ ] My Sister Eileen (1942) - [ ] Boy Meets Girl (1938) - [ ] All in a Night's Work (1961) - [ ] The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) - [ ] Alibi Ike (1935) - [ ] I Met Him in Paris (1937) - [ ] The Affairs of Cellini (1934) - [ ] Some Girls (1988) - [ ] Love on the Run (1936) - [ ] Having Wonderful Crime (1945) - [ ] The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939) - [ ] Danger - Love at Work (1937) - [ ] You Never Can Tell (1951) - [ ] Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) - [ ] The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) - [ ] Sour Grapes (1998) - [ ] There Goes My Girl (1937) - [ ] Who's That Girl (1987) - [ ] Beer and Pretzels (1933) - [ ] The Moon's Our Home (1936) - [ ] Bedtime Story (1941) - [ ] Blondie's Holiday (1947) - [ ] Office Christmas Party (2016) - [ ] Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (1915) - [ ] Rhythm in the Clouds (1937) - [ ] A Millionaire for Christy (1951) - [ ] Hired Wife (1940) - [ ] Beautiful (2000) - [ ] 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962) - [ ] Blondie for Victory (1942) - [ ] Made in America (1993) - [ ] Man of the Century (1999) - [ ] A Bride for Henry (1937) - [ ] The Bobo (1967) - [ ] There Goes the Groom (1937) - [ ] Wise Girl (1937) - [ ] Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) - [ ] Guest Wife (1945) - [ ] Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) - [ ] The Big Hangover (1950) - [ ] Betsy's Wedding (1990) - [ ] Trapped by Television (1936) - [ ] Fathers' Day (1997) - [ ] The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) - [ ] You Can't Run Away from It (1956) - [ ] Married Before Breakfast (1937) - [ ] The Lady Has Plans (1942) - [ ] Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) - [ ] The Jokers (1967) - [ ] This Thing Called Love (1940) - [ ] Turnabout (1940) - [ ] Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) - [ ] O-Kay for Sound (1937) - [ ] There's That Woman Again (1938) - [ ] I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953) - [ ] The Wrong Guys (1988) - [ ] One Rainy Afternoon (1936) - [ ] Out of the Blue (1947) - [ ] Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) - [ ] Potiche (2010) - [ ] Lend Me Your Wife (1959) - [ ] Too Many Wives (1937) - [ ] La vispa Teresa (1943) - [ ] The Impatient Maiden (1932) - [ ] By Candlelight (1933) - [ ] The Town Went Wild (1944) - [ ] Broadway Limited (1941) - [ ] Lady in a Jam (1942) - [ ] Blondie Knows Best (1946) - [ ] Stjärnsmäll i Frukostklubben (1950) - [ ] Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972) - [ ] Puccini for Beginners (2006) - [ ] How to Be a Player (1997) - [ ] Holy Man (1998) - [ ] The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991) - [ ] New Life (1983) - [ ] Three Men and a Leg (1997) - [ ] Two Much (1996) - [ ] Illegally Yours (1988) - [ ] Dog Days (1970) - [ ] Reckless Kelly (1993) - [ ] Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) - [ ] Deathrow Gameshow (1987) - [ ] Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974) - [ ] American Pie Presents Beta House (2007) - [ ] The Love Bug (1997) - [ ] Hardly Working (1980) - [ ] Throw Out the Anchor! (1974) - [ ] Town & Country (2001) - [ ] Lovers and Liars (1979) - [ ] À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur (1988) - [ ] Plaff! or Too Afraid of Life (1988) - [ ] Don Juan (1998) - [ ] Le Pari (1997) - [ ] Rolling Kansas (2003) - [ ] Forever Lulu (2000) - [ ] Screwball Hotel (1988) - [ ] Heads and Tails (1995) - [ ] The Calamari Wrestler (2004) - [ ] Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997) - [ ] Le nuove comiche (1994) - [ ] Go Go Tales (2007) - [ ] Bikini Hotel (1997) - [ ] Harvey (1996) - [ ] The Misery Brothers (1995) - [ ] Butch Camp (1996) - [ ] Road to Nhill (1997) - [ ] Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997) - [ ] She's Funny That Way (2014) - [ ] Post Grad (2009) - [ ] Too Much Sleep (1997) - [ ] Sprung (1997) - [ ] Att stjäla en tjuv (1996) - [ ] Just One Night (2000) - [ ] Playing Mona Lisa (2000) - [ ] 3 Strikes (2000) - [ ] The Naked Man (1998) - [ ] Things I Left in Havana (1997) - [ ] Laura Cadieux... la suite (1999) - [ ] B.A.P.S. (1997) - [ ] Colin Fitz Lives! (1997) - [ ] Samba in Mettmann (2004) - [ ] Fruit & Nut (2009) - [ ] Slippery Slope (2006) - [ ] Blonde Ambition (2007) - [ ] Happy Ever Afters (2009) - [ ] The Whole Truth (2009) - [ ] Chongqing Hot Pot (2016) - [ ] The Layover (2017) - [ ] Adam Green's Aladdin (2016) - [ ] How Long Will I Love U (2018) - [ ] Aquaslash (2019) - [ ] Women In Revolt (1971) - [ ] Labyrinth (1963) - [ ] Castle of Otranto (1977) - [ ] Manly Games (1988) - [ ] Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements (1931) - [ ] Leviathan (2012) - [ ] Trash (1970) - [ ] The Ossuary (1970) - [ ] The Hart of London (1970) - [ ] Lunacy (2005) - [ ] The Tracey Fragments (2007) - [ ] Tarantella (1940) - [ ] Patsy (1928) - [ ] I Was a Male War Bride (1949) - [ ] Champagne for Caesar (1950) - [ ] The Mating Season (1951) - [ ] The Grass Is Greener (1960) - [ ] Lover Come Back (1961) - [ ] One, Two, Three (1961), - [ ] It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - [ ] Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), - [ ] Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - [ ] Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) - [ ] She's Funny That Way (2015) - [ ] To Be or Not To Be (1983) 6.8 107m - [x] It Happened One Night (1934) - [x] To Be or Not to Be (1942) - [x] Brewster's Millions (1985) - [x] Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - [x] The Philadelphia Story (1940) - [x] His Girl Friday (1940) - [x] Bringing Up Baby (1938) - [x] My Man Godfrey (1936) - [x] Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - [x] A Night at the Opera (1935) - [x] Harvey (1950) - [x] Raising Arizona (1987) - [x] The Big Lebowski (1998) - [x] Ball of Fire (1941) - [x] You Can't Take It With You (1938) - [x] Clue (1985) - [x] The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - [x] Something Wild (1986) - [x] Blithe Spirit (1945) - [x] The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) - [x] Nothing Sacred (1937) - [x] The Palm Beach Story (1942) - [x] Ninotchka (1939) - [x] After the Thin Man (1936) - [x] The Cocoanuts (1929) - [x] Twentieth Century (1934) - [x] Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) - [x] Design for Living (1933) - [x] The Gay Divorcee (1934) - [x] Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) - [x] Hail, Caesar! (2016) - [x] The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - [x] Oscar (1991) - [x] Overboard (1987) - [x] Heaven Can Wait (1978) - [x] It's a Wonderful World (1939) - [x] Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.8 102m The film critic Andrew Sarris has defined the screwball comedy as "a sex comedy without the sex" elements of the screwball comedy include fast-paced, overlapping repartee, farcical situations, escapist themes, physical battle of the sexes, disguise and masquerade, and plot lines involving courtship and marriage Typical elements: * General set-up is within upper class or upper middle-class. * opposites attract" -theme * film occur right around Christmas time * gender-roles reversed/challenged * authority or age status reversed/challenged * drag (straight) skits * divorce/Remarrying * multiple love interests competing (courting) * comedy created from "force majeure" -lies/cheats * elements of screwy slapstick/pantomime/gag routines in situations, where in regular comedy they would be deemed inappropriate or unrealistic. * mistaken/false identity portrayed in comedic style * alcohol, drugs or medicine congested has a significant role with comedy/farcical issues * romantic comedy involves New York or Connecticut as a location The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing Up Baby. Hawksian woman Screwball Comedy: 1931-1956 Definitive List of Early Films https://letterboxd.com/koursaros/list/screwball-comedy-1931-1956-definitive-list/ https://www.imdb.com/list/ls064597659/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwball_comedy 8-11; 20-26 Screwball comedy and film noir : unexpected connections Tags: films