I'm thinking of movies along the lines of "The Lady Eve," "Bringing Up Baby," "It Happened One Night," and some of the Marx Brother's comedies, plus Carole Lombard et al.
What do you like, what would you recommend? I'd like to get a DVD collection going both for myself as well as for my elderly parents who lived through those Depression and War years. Thanks in advance.
i have mostly screwballs in my DVD collection. My recommendations:
*The Awful Truth (Irene Dunne + Cary Grant)
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (Myrna Loy + Cary Grant + Shirley Temple)
*Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck + Gary Cooper)
The Bride Came C.O.D. (Bette Davis + James Cagney)
*Bringing Up Baby (Katharine Hepburn + Cary Grant)
Carefree (Ginger Rogers + Fred Astaire) musical but a lot of screwball
Christmas in Connecticut (Barbara Stanwyck + Dennis Morgan)
Double Wedding (Myrna Loy + William Powell)
*His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell + Cary Grant)
Holiday (Katharine Hepburn + Cary Grant)
I Love You Again (Myrna Loy + William Powell)
*The Lady Eve (Barbara Stanwyck + Henry Fonda)
Libeled Lady (Myrna Loy + William Powell + Jean Harlow + Spencer Tracy)
Love Crazy (Myrna Loy + William Powell)
The Major and the Minor (Ginger Rogers + Ray Milland)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Myrna Loy + Cary Grant)
Monkey Business (Ginger Rogers + Cary Grant)
The More the Merrier (Jean Arthur + Joel McCrea)
My Favorite Wife (Irene Dunne + Cary Grant)
*My Man Godfrey (Carole Lombard + William Powell)
*Ninotchka (Greta Garbo + Melvyn Douglas)
The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert + Joel McCrea)
*The Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn + Cary Grant)
*The Thin Man Series (Myrna Loy + William Powell)
To Be or Not To Be (Carole Lombard + Jack Benny)
* MUST SEE SCREWBALL COMEDIES (they fit the genre perfectly and some of them inspired the trend of screwball ex. My Man Godfrey and The Awful Truth)
These movies are a part of my collection and I have them in alphabetical order because I would be lost if i didn't.
Thanks for the list, countrygirltori!
(Let me add: I've also been enjoying some of the early Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie collaborations such as "Swing Time," "Roberta," "Follow the Fleet," "The Gay Divorcee," et al. They have great combinations of dance, music, and comedy. Also recently enjoyed a Busby Berkeley movie, "Gold Diggers of 1935.")
Dinner At Eight
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Merrily We Live
Arsenic And Old Lace
Wife Vs. Secretary
My Favorite Wife
Rock Hudson/Doris Day Collection
Teacher's Pet
I was A Male War Bride
Auntie Mame
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
She Done Him Wrong
Some Like It Hot
I'm No Angel
Topper
We're Not Married
are just some more that I can think of although some that are on the list are later than '30s and '40s.
It is how you do it, and not your content that makes you an artist." -Alfred Hitchcock
You Can't Take It with You
shareI thought this movie was HILARIOUS hahaha, my fave is probably "i love you again"
I also liked "fours a crowd" and "my man godfrey"( i love everything with William Powell and "you cant take it with you"
I just saw this movie and thought it was hilarious, too . The Bride Came C.O.D. is now one of my favorites of that era.
countrygirltori mentioned Carefree (1938) which is one of my favorites, as well.
Just two delicious and beloved comedies missing from that long list someone sent you. My favorites: MIDNIGHT with Claudette Colbert and YOUNG IN HEART about a family of grifters and the mom is Billie Burke!
shareI can't find Young in heart on the imdb search engine. I looked up Billie Burke too, and saw nothing to match that title. I will definitely be looking at midnight though. That looks like a good one.
sharehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031002/ Is the listing at IMDB for The Young In Heart. Great fun.
share"Arthur" and "Tootsie".
I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?