Screwball: Hollywood's Madcap Romantic Comedies
Created by yormovies.
Favorited 21 times, disliked 0 times, added to 22 watchlists.
"Irreverent, elegant, sublime, and ridiculous, the screwball films of the 1930s and 1940s are a timeless collison of high wit and low slapstick, in which the players used street-smart repartee to turn good taste into bad manners. For one breathtaking moment Hollywood produced a succession of these unforgettable classics: His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, The Lady Eve, The Thin Man, and Twentieth Century. They featured wacky heiresses, boss ladies, and Cinderellas played by stars like Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell, and Jean Arthur. They hated and mated Gary Cooper, John Barrymore and William Powell: absent-minded professors, mad impressarios, and tuxedo-clad detectives."
This list is a selected filmography of Screwball comedies, and a few earlier influences (ie: Design For Living) that exemplified the genre and are discussed thoroughly in Ed Sikov's book "Screwball: Hollwood's Madcap Romantic Comedies."
Pssst, want to check out the Screwball: Hollywood's Madcap Romantic Comedies list in our new look?
Filter
-
30 new
It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
55 new
The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
26 new
His Girl Friday
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
11 new
Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
66 new
The Thin Man
1934, in 14 top lists Check -
5 new
The Awful Truth
1937, in 15 top lists Check -
51 new
My Man Godfrey
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
36 new
The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
49 new
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936, in 11 top lists Check -
78 new
You Can't Take It with You
1938, in 8 top lists Check -
54 new
The Palm Beach Story
1942, in 14 top lists Check -
13 new
Design for Living
1933, in 6 top lists Check -
44 new
Monkey Business
1952, in 4 top lists Check -
27 new
Holiday
1938, in 8 top lists Check -
48 new
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941, in 0 top lists Check -
75 new
Unfaithfully Yours
1948, in 6 top lists Check -
2 new
After the Thin Man
1936, in 1 top list Check -
4 new
Another Thin Man
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
37 new
Libeled Lady
1936, in 3 top lists Check -
42 new
The Major and the Minor
1942, in 3 top lists Check -
33 new
I Was a Male War Bride
1949 — a.k.a. You Can't Sleep Here, in 3 top lists Check -
61 new
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941, in 0 top lists Check -
62 new
Song of the Thin Man
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
67 new
The Thin Man Goes Home
1945, in 0 top lists Check -
50 new
My Favorite Wife
1940, in 1 top list Check -
52 new
Nothing Sacred
1937, in 4 top lists Check -
7 new
Ball of Fire
1941, in 6 top lists Check -
74 new
Twentieth Century
1934, in 6 top lists Check -
15 new
Easy Living
1937, in 4 top lists Check -
19 new
The Front Page
1931, in 3 top lists Check -
43 new
Midnight
1939, in 7 top lists Check -
46 new
The More the Merrier
1943, in 4 top lists Check -
6 new
Bachelor Mother
1939, in 2 top lists Check -
8 new
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938, in 1 top list Check -
71 new
Topper
1937, in 2 top lists Check -
14 new
Double Wedding
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
22 new
The Good Fairy
1935, in 1 top list Check -
23 new
Hands Across the Table
1935, in 0 top lists Check -
38 new
Love Crazy
1941, in 0 top lists Check -
28 new
I Love You Again
1940, in 0 top lists Check -
56 new
The Princess Comes Across
1936, in 0 top lists Check -
64 new
That Uncertain Feeling
1941, in 0 top lists Check -
72 new
True Confession
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
76 new
Vivacious Lady
1938, in 1 top list Check -
79 new
The Young in Heart
1938, in 2 top lists Check -
41 new
The Mad Miss Manton
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
70 new
Too Many Husbands
1940 — a.k.a. My Two Husbands, in 0 top lists Check -
18 new
5th Ave Girl
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
29 new
I Met Him in Paris
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
32 new
It's a Wonderful World
1939, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on May 26, 2014;