Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges

by James Harvey (Author)

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Synopsis of Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges

In 1934 four movies It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee ushered 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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  • Pages: 734
  • Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
  • Published: 1st March 1998
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780306808326
  • Category: Performing Arts

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