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{{Short description|Genre of comedy film}}File:BabyPoster2.jpg|thumb|Bringing Up BabyBringing Up BabyScrewball 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 traditional love story. It has secondary characteristics similar to film noir, distinguished by a female character who dominates the relationship with the male central character, whose masculinity is challenged,BOOK
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, Dancyger
, Ken
, Rush
, Jeff
, Alternative Scriptwriting
, Fourth
, 2006
, Focal Press
, 978-0240808499
, 85
, The screwball comedy is funny film noir that has a happy ending... The premise of the film is about the struggle in their relationship. During the course of the struggle, which is highly sexually charged, the maleness of the central character is challenged. The female is the dominant character in the relationship. This role reversion is central to the screwball comedy.
, and the two engage in a humorous (wikt:battle of the sexes|battle of the sexes).Cele Otnes; Elizabeth Hafkin PleckCele Otnes, Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck (2003) Cinderella dreams: the allure of the lavish wedding University of California Press, p. 168. {{ISBN|0-520-24008-1}}.The genre also featured romantic attachments between members of different social classes,Beach, Christopher. Class, Language, and American Film Comedy. Cambridge University Press (February 11, 2002). p. 125. as in It Happened One Night (1934) and My Man Godfrey (1936).What sets the screwball comedy apart from the generic romantic comedy is that “screwball comedy puts the emphasis on a funny spoofing of love, while the more traditional romantic comedy ultimately accents love.” Other 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. Some comic plays are also described as screwball comedies., Ken
, Rush
, Jeff
, Alternative Scriptwriting
, Fourth
, 2006
, Focal Press
, 978-0240808499
, 85
, The screwball comedy is funny film noir that has a happy ending... The premise of the film is about the struggle in their relationship. During the course of the struggle, which is highly sexually charged, the maleness of the central character is challenged. The female is the dominant character in the relationship. This role reversion is central to the screwball comedy.
Name
Screwball comedy gets its name from the screwball, a type of breaking pitch in baseball and fastpitch softball which moves in the opposite direction from all other breaking pitches.WEB, Screwball (SC), MLB.com,www.mlb.com/glossary/pitch-types/screwball, 2023-11-05, These features of the screwball pitch also describe the dynamics between the lead characters in screwball comedy films. According to Gehring (2008):BOOK, Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference, Gehring, Wes D., Scarecrow Press Inc., 2008, Lanham, 9, Still, screwball comedy probably drew its name from the term’s entertainingly unorthodox use in the national pastime. Before the term’s application in 1930s film criticism, “screwball” had been used in baseball to describe both an oddball player and “any pitched ball that moves in an unusual or unexpected way.” Obviously, these characteristics also describe performers in screwball comedy films, from oddball Carole Lombard to the unusual or unexpected movement of Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938). As with the crazy period antics in baseball, screwball comedy uses nutty behavior as a prism through which to view a topsy-turvy period in American history.History
Screwball comedy has proved to be a popular and enduring film genre.NEWS, Sarris, Andrew, March 1, 1978, THE SEX COMEDY WITHOUT SEX, 3, 8â15, American Film, 5, New York,www.proquest.com/docview/964099959, December 19, 2022, {{ProQuest, 964099959, }} Three-Cornered Moon (1933) starring Claudette Colbert, is often credited as the first true screwball,Three-Cornered Moon AllMovie review by Craig Butler, accessed October 28, 2023 though Bombshell starring Jean Harlow followed it in the same year. Although many film scholars agree that its classic period had effectively ended by 1942,BOOK, Byrge
, Duane
, Miller
, Robert Milton
, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934–1942
,books.google.com/books?id=SK5ZAAAAMAAJ&q=screwball+comedy+1940
, 1991
, McFarland
, 978-0-89950-539-8
, 104
, With the explosive exception of His Girl Friday, screwball comedy had calmed considerably by 1940 from its peak of zaniness in 1937â38.
, elements of the genre have persisted or have been paid homage to in later films. Other film scholars argue that the screwball comedy lives on.During the Great Depression, there was a general demand for films with a strong social class critique and hopeful, escapist-oriented themes. The screwball format arose largely due to the major film studios’ desire to avoid censorship by the increasingly enforced Hays Code. Filmmakers resorted to handling these elements covertly to incorporate prohibited risqué elements into their plots. The verbal sparring between the sexes served as a stand-in for physical and sexual tension.WEB,xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/comedy/historicalcontext.html, Under the Radar: The Hays Code and the Birth of Screwball, University of Virginia, virginia.edu, 21 March 2018, Though some film scholars, such as William K. Everson, argue that “screwball comedies were not so much rebelling against the Production Code as they were attacking{{snd}} and ridiculing{{snd}} the dull, lifeless respectability that the Code insisted on for family viewing.“BOOK, Hollywood Bedlam: Classic Screwball Comedies, Everson, William K., Carol Publishing Group, 1994, New York, The screwball comedy has close links with the theatrical genre of farce,BOOK, Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference, Gehring, Wes D., Scarecrow Press Inc., 2008, Lanham, 186, and some comic plays are also described as screwball comedies. Other genres with which screwball comedy is associated include slapstick, situation comedy, romantic comedy and bedroom farce., Duane
, Miller
, Robert Milton
, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934–1942
,books.google.com/books?id=SK5ZAAAAMAAJ&q=screwball+comedy+1940
, 1991
, McFarland
, 978-0-89950-539-8
, 104
, With the explosive exception of His Girl Friday, screwball comedy had calmed considerably by 1940 from its peak of zaniness in 1937â38.
Characteristics
{{More citations needed section|date=June 2009}}File:Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night.jpg|thumb|A still from a trailer for It Happened One NightIt Happened One NightFilms that are definitive of the genre usually feature farcical situations, a combination of slapstick and fast-paced repartee, and show the struggle between economic classes. They also generally feature a self-confident and often stubborn central female protagonist and a plot involving courtship, marriage, or remarriage. These traits can be seen in both It Happened One Night (1934) and My Man Godfrey (1936). The film critic Andrew Sarris has defined the screwball comedy as “a sex comedy without the sex.“Citation Sarris, Andrew. You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The American Talking Film, History & Memory, 1927–1949, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998Like farce, screwball comedies often involve masquerades and disguises in which a character or characters resort to secrecy. Sometimes screwball comedies feature male characters cross-dressing, further contributing to elements of masquerade (Bringing Up Baby (1938), Love Crazy (1941), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), and Some Like It Hot (1959)). At first, the couple seems mismatched and even hostile to each other, but eventually overcome their differences amusingly or entertainingly, leading to romance. Often, this mismatch comes about when the man is of a lower social class than the woman (Bringing Up Baby and Holiday, both 1938). The woman often plans the final romantic union from the outset, and the man is seemingly oblivious to this. In Bringing Up Baby, the woman tells a third party: “He’s the man I’m going to marry. He doesn’t know it, but I am.“File:The-Lady-Eve.jpg|thumb|In The Lady Eve, Jean (center, played by Barbara StanwyckBarbara StanwyckThese pictures also offered a cultural escape valve: a safe battleground to explore serious issues such as class under a comedic and non-threatening framework.weblink The Screwball and Its Audience - University of Virginia Class issues are a strong component of screwball comedies: the upper class is represented as idle, pampered, and having difficulty coping with the real world. By contrast, when lower-class people attempt to pass themselves off as upper class or otherwise insinuate themselves into high society, they can do so with relative ease (The Lady Eve, 1941; My Man Godfrey, 1936). Some critics believe that the portrayal of the upper class in It Happened One Night was brought about by the Great Depression, and the financially struggling moviegoing public’s desire to see the upper class taught a lesson in humanity.BOOK, Pronovost, Virginie, “Screwball”: A Genre for the People : Representing Social Classes in Depression Screwball Comedy (1934-1938): Representing Social Classes in Depression Screwball Comedy (1934-1938), 2020, Stockholm University,su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?language=en&pid=diva2%3A1437132, 27 February 2024, PDF, Another common element of the screwball comedy is fast-talking, witty repartee, such as in You Can’t Take It with You (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940). This stylistic device did not originate in the genre: it is also found in many of the old Hollywood cycles, including gangster films and traditional romantic comedies.Screwball comedies also tend to contain ridiculous, farcical situations, such as in Bringing Up Baby, where a couple must take care of a pet leopard during much of the film. Slapstick elements are also frequently present, such as the numerous pratfalls Henry Fonda takes in The Lady Eve (1941).One subgenre of screwball is known as the comedy of remarriage, in which characters divorce and then remarry one another (The Awful Truth (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940)).BOOK, Cavell, Stanley, Pursuits of happiness: the Hollywood comedy of remarriage, 2003, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 978-0-674-73906-2, 10. print, Some scholars point to this frequent device as evidence of the shift in the American moral code, as it showed freer attitudes toward divorce (though the divorce always turns out to have been a mistake: “You’ve got an old fashioned idea divorce is something that lasts forever, ‘til death do us part.’ Why divorce doesn’t mean anything nowadays, Hildy, just a few words mumbled over you by a judge.“)Another subgenre of screwball comedy is the woman chasing a man who is oblivious to or uninterested in her. Examples include Barbara Stanwyck chasing Henry Fonda (The Lady Eve, 1941); Sonja Henie chasing John Payne (Sun Valley Serenade, 1941, and Iceland, 1942); Marion Davies chasing Antonio Moreno (The Cardboard Lover, 1928); Marion Davies chasing Bing Crosby (Going Hollywood, 1933); and Carole Lombard chasing William Powell (My Man Godfrey, 1936).The philosopher Stanley Cavell has noted that many classic screwball comedies turn on an interlude in the state of Connecticut (Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth).Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981 In Christmas in Connecticut (1945), the action moves to Connecticut and remains there for the duration of the film. New York City is also featured in a lot of screwball comedies, which critics have noted may be because of the economic diversity of the city and the ability to contrast different social classes during the Great Depression. The screwball comedies It Happened One Night (1934) and The Palm Beach Story (1942) also feature characters traveling to and from Florida by train. Trains, another staple of screwball comedies and romantic comedies from the era, are also featured prominently in Design for Living (1934),Twentieth Century (1934) and Vivacious Lady (1938).Examples from the classic period
File:His Girl Friday still 2.jpg|thumb|A promotional photo for the 1940 screwball comedy His Girl FridayHis Girl Friday{{sticky header}}{| class=“wikitable sortable sticky-header“! Year !! Title !! Director !! class=“unsortable“|Stars !! class=“unsortable“|RefMarion Davies, Marie Dressler, and Lawrence Gray |
Platinum Blonde (film)>Platinum Blonde | Loretta Young, Robert Williams (actor, born 1894) | and Jean Harlow>| |
His Girl Friday) | Adolphe Menjou and Pat O’Brien (actor) | > | AUTHOR=TIM DIRKS, filmsite.org, |
Trouble in Paradise (1932 film)>Trouble in Paradise | Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall | WHITE >FIRST=ARMOND | URL=HTTPS://WWW.CRITERION.COM/CURRENT/POSTS/1073-TROUBLE-IN-PARADISE-LOVERS-ON-THE-MONEY | WEBSITE=THE CRITERION COLLECTION | TITLE=SCREEN AGES: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN CINEMA | YEAR=2014 | PAGES=111, HALBOUT >FIRST=GRéGOIRE | PUBLISHER=BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING | ISBN=9781501347627, |
Bombshell (1933 film)>Bombshell | Victor Fleming | Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy |
Design for Living (film)>Design for Living | Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins | JANES >FIRST1=SAMANTHA ANNE | URL=HTTPS://OAKTRUST.LIBRARY.TAMU.EDU/HANDLE/1969.1/192331 | PUBLISHER=TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | FORMAT=PDF | TYPE=THESIS, |
It Happened One Night> | Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert>| |
Twentieth Century (film)>Twentieth Century | John Barrymore and Carole Lombard | WHO KILLED THE SCREWBALL COMEDY? >AUTHOR=ROBBIE COLLIN | NEWSPAPER=THE DAILY TELEGRAPH | >DATE=23 JUNE 2015 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://GHOSTARCHIVE.ORG/ARCHIVE/20220112/HTTPS://WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK/FILM/WHAT-TO-WATCH/SCREWBALL-COMEDY/ | URL-ACCESS=SUBSCRIPTION, live, {{cbignore}} |
Hands Across the Table> | Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray and Ralph Bellamy>| |
She Couldn’t Take It> | George Raft and Joan Bennett>| |
If You Could Only Cook> | William A. Seiter> | Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur>| |
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town> | Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur>| |
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford> | Stephen Roberts (director)>Stephen Roberts | William Powell and Jean Arthur | HALBOUT >FIRST1=GRéGOIRE | DATE=2023 | LOCATION=NEW YORK LONDON OXFORD NEW DELHI SYDNEY | EDITION=PAPERBACK, |
My Man Godfrey> | William Powell and Carole Lombard>| |
Cain and Mabel> | Marion Davies and Clark Gable>| |
Libeled Lady> | Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy |
Theodora Goes Wild> | Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas> | DATE=6 FEBRUARY 2006, |
Easy Living (1937 film)>Easy Living | Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold (actor) | and Ray Milland>| |
Topper (film)>Topper | Constance Bennett and Cary Grant |
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy> | PUBLISHER=BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, |
Nothing Sacred (film)>Nothing Sacred | Carole Lombard and Fredric March |
True Confession> | Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray and John Barrymore> | TITLE=NOTEBOOK PRIMER: SCREWBALL COMEDY | WEBSITE=MUBI | LANGUAGE=EN, 6 January 2022, |
The Divorce of Lady X> | Tim Whelan> | Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier> | TITLE=DIVORCE OF LADY X: KORDA SCREWBALL COMEDY, STARRING MERLE OBERON, LAURENCE OLIVIER AND RALPH RICHARDSON - EMANUEL LEVY | WEBSITE=EMANUEL LEVY | LANGUAGE=EN | TITLE=MOST OLIVIER PERFORMANCES AVAILABLE ON HOME VIDEO | WEBSITE=LOS ANGELES TIMES | DATE=14 JULY 1989, |
Merrily We Live> | Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne>| |
Bringing Up Baby> | Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant>| |
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife> | Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper>| |
Joy of Living> | Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.> | TITLE=A PROPER DASH OF SPICE: SCREWBALL COMEDY AND THE PRODUCTION CODE | DATE=2011 | ISSUE=3 | DOI=10.5406/JFILMVIDEO.63.3.0045 | URL=HTTPS://WWW.JSTOR.ORG/STABLE/10.5406/JFILMVIDEO.63.3.0045 | ISSN=0742-4671, |
Vivacious Lady> | Ginger Rogers and James Stewart>| |
Holiday (1938 film)>Holiday | Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant |
You Can’t Take It with You (film)>You Can’t Take It with You | Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart and Edward Arnold (actor) | > | TITLE=YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU | WEBSITE=REELVIEWS MOVIE REVIEWS | LANGUAGE=EN, JOHNSON >FIRST1=MARK | URL=HTTPS://WWW.AWARDSDAILY.COM/2023/05/19/95-YEARS-OF-OSCARS-RANKING-THE-BEST-PICTURE-WINNERS-95-76/ | ACCESS-DATE=27 FEBRUARY 2024 | TITLE=THE NIPPU JIJI | ACCESS-DATE=27 FEBRUARY 2024 | DATE=FEB 8, 2022, Honolulu, |
Three Loves Has Nancy> | Richard Thorpe> | Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery (actor)>Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone |
The Mad Miss Manton> | Leigh Jason> | Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda>| |
Say It in French> | Andrew L. Stone> | Ray Milland and Olympe Bradna>| |
Midnight (1939 film)>Midnight | Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche |
It’s a Wonderful World (1939 film)>It’s a Wonderful World | W. S. Van Dyke | Claudette Colbert and James Stewart |
Bachelor Mother> | Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Charles Coburn>| |
Ninotchka > | Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas>| |
His Girl Friday> | Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy>| |
Too Many Husbands> | Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas>| |
My Favorite Wife> | Cary Grant and Irene Dunne>| |
The Great McGinty> | Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus and Akim Tamiroff>| |
Christmas in July (film)>Christmas in July | Dick Powell and Ellen Drew | BEACH >FIRST1=CHRISTOPHER | DATE=2004 | LOCATION=CAMBRIDGE | PAGE=117, Transferred to digital print, |
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart |
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941 film)>Mr. and Mrs. Smith | Robert Montgomery (actor) | and Carole Lombard>| |
Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda>| |
The Devil and Miss Jones> | Sam Wood> | Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn>| |
Love Crazy (1941 film)>Love Crazy | Jack Conway (filmmaker) | > | William Powell and Myrna Loy>| |
Unfinished Business (1941 film)>Unfinished Business | Robert Montgomery (actor) | and Irene Dunne>| |
Ball of Fire> | Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper> | LAST=WILSON | DATE=2011-02-25 | LANGUAGE=EN | LAST=GEMMILL | WEBSITE=BUSTLE | LANGUAGE=EN, 2019-01-01, |
Sullivan’s Travels> | Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake>| |
To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)>To Be or Not To Be | Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack | HASLAM >FIRST=JASON | PUBLISHER=UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS | ISBN=9781442641846, 164, |
The Major and the Minor> | Billy Wilder> | Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland> | TITLE=TCM SPOTLIGHT: SCREWBALL COMEDIES | WEBSITE=WWW.TCM.COM | LANGUAGE=EN, |
I Married a Witch> | René Clair> | Fredric March and Veronica Lake> | TITLE=MADCAPS, SCREWBALLS, AND CON-WOMEN: THE FEMALE TRICKSTER IN AMERICAN CULTURE | DATE=1994 | URL=HTTPS://WWW.PROQUEST.COM/DOCVIEW/304127781 | ID={{PROQUEST, 304127781, }} |
Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea>| |
The More the Merrier> | Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea>| |
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek> | Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken> | TITLE=REFOCUS: THE FILMS OF PRESTON STURGES | PUBLISHER=EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS | PAGES=118â120, |
Arsenic and Old Lace (film)>Arsenic and Old Lace | Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane |
Eve Knew Her Apples (the first musical remake of It Happened One Night)> | Will Jason> | Ann Miller and William Wright (actor)>William Wright |
Christmas in Connecticut> | Peter Godfrey (director)>Peter Godfrey | Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan | SIEDE >FIRST1=CAROLINE | URL=HTTPS://WWW.AVCLUB.COM/CELEBRATE-CHRISTMAS-WITH-THE-SUBVERSIVE-1940S-ROM-COM-T-1845857392 | ACCESS-DATE=26 FEBRUARY 2024 | DATE=18 DECEMBER 2020, |
Cluny Brown> | Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones>| |
Easy to Wed (musical remake of Libeled Lady)> | Edward Buzzell> | Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn>| |
A Song Is Born (musical remake of Ball of Fire)> | Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo>| |
I Was a Male War Bride> | Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan>| |
- Jean Arthur
- Fred Astaire
- Ralph Bellamy
- Eric Blore
- Jack Carson
- Charles Coburn
- Claudette Colbert
- Gary Cooper
- Marion Davies
- William Demarest
- Melvyn Douglas
- Irene Dunne
- Clark Gable
- Cary Grant
- Jean Harlow
- Katharine Hepburn
- Edward Everett Horton
- Harold Lloyd
- Carole Lombard
- Myrna Loy
- Fred MacMurray
- Fredric March
- Joel McCrea
- Ray Milland
- William Powell
- Ginger Rogers
- Rosalind Russell
- Barbara Stanwyck
- James Stewart
- Frank Capra
- George Cukor
- Howard Hawks
- Garson Kanin
- Gregory La Cava
- Mitchell Leisen
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Leo McCarey
- George Stevens
- Preston Sturges
- W. S. Van Dyke
- Billy Wilder
Later examples
File:Marilyn Monroe and Alexander D’Arcy in How to Marry a Millionaire trailer.jpg|thumb|A screenshot from a trailer for How to Marry a MillionaireHow to Marry a MillionaireFile:One two three43.jpg|thumb|One, Two, ThreeOne, Two, ThreeLater films thought to have revived elements of the classic era screwball comedies include:{{Div col}}- Champagne for Caesar (1950), d. Richard Whorf
- The Mating Season (1951), d. Mitchell Leisen
- Monkey Business (1952), d. Howard Hawks
- How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), d. Jean Negulesco
- Let’s Do It Again (1953), d. Alexander Hall, musical remake of The Awful Truth (1937)
- Living It Up (1954), d. Norman Taurog, remake of Nothing Sacred (1937)
- Three for the Show (1955), d. H. C. Potter, musical remake of Too Many Husbands
- The Seven Year Itch (1955), d. Billy Wilder
- The Birds and the Bees (1956), d. Norman Taurog, a musical remake of The Lady Eve (1941)
- High Society (1956), d. Charles Walters, musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- You Can’t Run Away from It (1956) d. Dick Powell, the second musical remake of It Happened One Night (1934)
- Bundle of Joy (1956) d. Norman Taurog, musical remake of Bachelor Mother (1939)
- Silk Stockings (1957), d. Rouben Mamoulian, musical remake of Ninotchka (1939)
- Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958), d. Satyen BoseWEB, rediff.com, Movies: Classics Revisited: Why Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi is nonstop fun,m.rediff.com/movies/2003/jan/08dinesh.htm, 2023-04-30, m.rediff.com,
- Rock-A-Bye Baby, d. Frank Tashlin, a musical remake of The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
- Bell, Book and Candle (1958), d. Richard Quine
- Pillow Talk (1959), d. Michael Gordon
- Some Like It Hot (1959), d. Billy Wilder
- The Grass Is Greener (1960), d. Stanley Donen
- Lover Come Back (1961), d. Delbert Mann
- One, Two, Three (1961), d. Billy Wilder
- Charade (1963), d. Stanley Donen
- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), d. Stanley Kramer
- Move Over, Darling (1963) d. Michael Gordon, remake of My Favorite Wife (1940)
- Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), d. Howard Hawks, homage to Bringing Up Baby (1938), also directed by Hawks
- Send Me No Flowers (1964), d. Norman Jewison
- What’s New Pussycat? (1965), d. Clive Donner
- Walk, Don’t Run (1966), d. Charles Walters, remake of The More the Merrier (1943)
- What’s Up, Doc? (1972), d. Peter Bogdanovich
- For Pete’s Sake (1974), d. Peter Yates
- Heaven Can Wait (1978), d. Warren Beatty and Buck Henry
- Arthur (1981), d. Steve GordonWEB, Canby, Vincent, Dudley Moore Stars as a Screwball in ‘Arthur’,www.nytimes.com/1981/07/17/movies/dudley-moore-stars-as-a-screwball-in-arthur.html, The New York Times, 27 February 2024, July 17, 1981,
- Poochakkoru Mookkuthi (1984), d. Priyadarshan, based on Charles Dickens’s play ‘The Strange Gentleman’WEB,insights.ranker.com/?id=1822732&adjectives=any, Ranker Insights,
- Unfaithfully Yours (1984), d. Howard Zieff, a remake of the 1948 Preston Sturges film of the same name
- Une Femme ou Deux ({{translation}} “One Woman or Two”; 1985), d. Daniel Vigne
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), d. Susan SeidelmanDescribed as a screwball comedy in Roger Ebert’s contemporary review.
- Something Wild (1986), d. Jonathan DemmeWEB, Kael, Pauline, The Stacks: ‘Something Wild’ Is One Great Road Movie,www.thedailybeast.com/the-stacks-something-wild-is-one-great-road-movie, The Daily Beast, 8 February 2024, en, 21 February 2015,
- Overboard (1987), d. Garry Marshall
- Raising Arizona (1987), d. Coen Brothers
- Who’s That Girl (1987) d. James Foley
- Switching Channels (1988), d. Ted Kotcheff, a remake of His Girl Friday (1940)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), d. Pedro Almodóvar
- Oscar (1991) d. John LandisWEB,articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-04-26/entertainment/9102070003_1_snaps-oscar-fatal-attraction, Stallone’s ‘Oscar’ Recovers From Bad Start, chicagotribune.com, 26 April 1991, 21 March 2018,
- Sólo con tu pareja (1991), d. Alfonso Cuarón
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), d. Joel Coen
- Radioland Murders (1994), d. Mel Smith from story by George Lucas
- Flirting with Disaster (1996), d. David O. Russell
- Runaway Bride (1999) d. Garry Marshall
- Little Nicky (2000), d. Steven Brill
- Rat Race (2001), d. Jerry Zucker
- Intolerable Cruelty (2003), d. Coen Brothers
- (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) (2004), d. Adam McKay
- I Heart Huckabees (2004), d. David O. RussellWEB,www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_heart_huckabees/, I Heart Huckabees (2004), Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango Media, January 12, 2024, live,www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_heart_huckabees/," title="web.archive.org/web/20100118154101www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_heart_huckabees/,">web.archive.org/web/20100118154101www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_heart_huckabees/, January 18, 2010, mdy-all,
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), d. Bharat Nalluri
- Our Idiot Brother (2011), d. Jesse Peretz
- While We’re Young (2014), d. Noah Baumbach
- She’s Funny That Way (2014), d. Peter Bogdanovich
- Mistress America (2015), d. Noah Baumbach
- Night Owls (2015), d. Charles HoodWEB, O’Malley, Sheila, Modern Screwball: Charles Hood on “Night Owls”,www.rogerebert.com/interviews/modern-screwball-charles-hood-on-night-owls, Roger Ebert, 27 February 2024, Dec 15, 2015,
- Hail, Caesar! (2016), d. Coen Brothers
- Chongqing Hot Pot (2016), d. Yang QingWEB,www.screendaily.com/reviews/chongqing-hot-pot-hkiff-review/5101848.article, ‘Chongqing Hot Pot’: HKIFF review, James, Marsh, March 23, 2016, March 28, 2016, Screen Daily,
Screwball comedy elements in other media and genres
The screwball film tradition influenced television sitcom and comedy drama genres. Notable screwball couples in television have included Sam and Diane in Cheers, Maddie and David in Moonlighting, and Joel and Maggie in Northern Exposure.JOURNAL, Scodari, Christine, March 1995, Possession, attraction, and the thrill of the chase: Gendered myth-making in film and television comedy of the sexes,www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15295039509366917, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12, 1, 23â39, 10.1080/15295039509366917, 7 October 2023, BOOK, Spencer, Metta, Two aspirins and a comedy: How television can enhance health and society, 2006, Paradigm, 9781594511554, 207â208, In his 2008 production of the classic Beaumarchais comedy The Marriage of Figaro, author William James Royce trimmed the five-act play down to three acts and labeled it a “classic screwball comedy”. The playwright made Suzanne the central character, endowing her with all the feisty comedic strengths of her classic film counterparts. In his adaptation, entitled One Mad Day! (a play on Beaumarchais’ original French title), Royce underscored all of the elements of the classic screwball comedy, suggesting that Beaumarchais may have had a hand in the origins of the genre.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.WEB, Nick, Gevers, Nick Gevers, Corrupting Dr Nice by John Kessel,www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/drnice.htm, infinity plus, 16 October 1999, 29 August 2012,See also
- Comedy of manners
- Comedy of remarriage
- Farce
- Hawksian woman
- Love-hate relationship
- Sex comedy
- Slapstick film
References
{{Reflist}}Further reading
- Wes D. Gehring, 1983. Screwball Comedy: Defining a Film Genre
- Grégoire Halbout, 2022. Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals.
- WEB, Liebenson, Donald, TCM Spotlight: Screwball Comedies,www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021735/tcm-spotlight-screwball-comedies, www.tcm.com, 27 February 2024, en,
- BOOK, Pronovost, Virginie, ‘Screwball’: A Genre for the People : Representing Social Classes in Depression Screwball Comedy (1934-1938), 2020-06-08, DiVA portal, Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media Studies, Cinema Studies., Stockholm University Library,su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?language=en&pid=diva2%3A1437132, 8 May 2023, en, Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits,
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- Home of the Screwball - University of Virginia
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