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- Bringing Up Baby. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles. 284 votes. Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum.
- Some Like It Hot. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe. 217 votes. In the classic comedy Some Like It Hot, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) find themselves on the run from Chicago mobsters.
- His Girl Friday. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. 217 votes. When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milquetoast insurance agent Bruce Baldwin, he unsuccessfully tries to lure her away from tame domestic life with a story about the impending execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams.
- It Happened One Night. Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly. 223 votes. In Frank Capra's acclaimed romantic comedy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) impetuously marries the scheming King Westley, leading her tycoon father (Walter Connolly) to spirit her away on his yacht.
- Design for Living. Directed by the magnificent Ernst Lubitsch, "Design for Living" is a glorious, sexy screwball comedy. The film begins on a train, where dear friends George Curtis (Western actor Gary Cooper), an artist, and Thomas Chambers (Fredric March), a playwright, happen upon Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins).
- It Happened One Night. Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" has become the stuff of legends. It was the first film in Oscar history to win all of the five biggest awards — Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and, of course, Best Picture.
- My Man Godfrey. Despite being released in 1936, "My Man Godfrey" still feels incredibly refreshing. The movie follows a ridiculously wealthy and stupendously bonkers family.
- Easy Living. Many great comedies begin with a meet-cute: a quirky occurrence that causes our two eventual lovers to meet. "Easy Living" takes off with something of a meet-fall, after an extravagant fur coat seemingly falls out of the sky onto the unwitting Mary Smith (Jean Arthur).
Feb 12, 2015 · 10 great screwball comedy films. Emerging in the 1930s, screwball comedies were a wild new strain of fast-talking farces involving battles of the sexes and a world forever on the brink of chaos. Here are 10 of the best places to start.
- It Happened One Night. Three of Hollywood's biggest icons made a name for themselves in It Happened One Night. The film even won all five of the Academy Awards it was nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adaptation, joining only two other films to win the big five Oscars.
- My Man Godfrey. Irene Bullock hires Godfrey as her family's butler in order to win a scavenger hunt. As Irene gets to know him better, she finds herself falling for the butler.
- His Girl Friday. Grant's films could make up this whole list, but His Girl Friday stands apart for the electric chemistry between Grant and Rosalind Russell and some of the fastest speaking on film.
- Some Like it Hot. Before White Chicks became one of the most well known cross-dressing comedies, Some Like it Hot captivated audiences with a similar premise.
- It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) It’s hard to imagine a more influential screwball comedy than Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, released by Columbia Pictures in 1934 and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
- The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke) The same year that Capra directed the archetypal screwball comedy, W.S. Van Dyke adapted a Dashiell Hammett murder mystery into a comedy that would help to strengthen and diversify the genre.
- My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava) Two years after The Thin Man, William Powell would star in another screwball classic, this time as a man at the other end of the social spectrum.
- Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks) Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn appeared in four films together between 1938 and 1940, two of which are undeniable cornerstones of the screwball comedy genre.
A list of 123 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Design for Living (1933), It Happened One Night (1934), Twentieth Century (1934), The Thin Man (1934) and We're Not Dressing (1934).
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Jan 15, 2021 · From the 1930’s through the 40’s (and a few outliers which came even later) Hollywood perfected the Screwball Comedy, a heightened subgenre featuring outrages storylines, physical humor and farcical situations.
