Romantic Comedy in Hollywood
From Lubitsch to Sturges
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By James Harvey
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In 1934 four moviesIt Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorceeushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic (“screwball”) comedy. Slangy, playful, and “powerfully, glamorously in love with love,” the films that followed were unique in their combination of swank and slapstick. Here are the directorsLubitsch (Trouble in Paradise), Capra (It Happened One Night), Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday), McCarey (The Awful Truth), La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door), Sturges (The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek)and their starsCarole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, William Powell, Myrna Loy, among othersall described and analyzed in one comprehensive and delightful volume.
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- On Sale
- Mar 22, 1998
- Page Count
- 734 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo
- ISBN-13
- 9780306808326
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