Post by Salzmank on Jun 16, 2017 3:24:11 GMT
Oy! Like you, spiderwort , I could list a legion of them, but a few favorites offhand:
Bringing up Baby
The Thin Man
The Awful Truth
His Girl Friday
It Happened One Night
The Palm Beach Story (my favorite Sturges? Maybe not, but I'd like to pick one that someone hasn't already picked!
)
One, Two, Three
Twentieth Century
What's Up, Doc?
Question: does Some Like It Hot count? How about most of Lubitsch? If so, I'd add that to the list, but Lubitsch in particular doesn't seem very screwball-y to me. I guess that's the built-in problem of genre definitions. Hmm... On that note, does The Thin Man even count? The screwball comedy aspects matter far more than the whodunit plot, but it is officially a whodunit, not a comedy, so... Oh, well.
Bringing up Baby
The Thin Man
The Awful Truth
His Girl Friday
It Happened One Night
The Palm Beach Story (my favorite Sturges? Maybe not, but I'd like to pick one that someone hasn't already picked!
)One, Two, Three
Twentieth Century
What's Up, Doc?
Question: does Some Like It Hot count? How about most of Lubitsch? If so, I'd add that to the list, but Lubitsch in particular doesn't seem very screwball-y to me. I guess that's the built-in problem of genre definitions. Hmm... On that note, does The Thin Man even count? The screwball comedy aspects matter far more than the whodunit plot, but it is officially a whodunit, not a comedy, so... Oh, well.