Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1938 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
The great Ernst Lubitsch lends his famously sophisticated touch to this whimsical farce about a spoiled American millionaire who uses his wealth to lure an attractive French aristocrat into marriage. As the oft-married playboy and his reluctant new bride, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert are at their most elegant and lighthearted, while the script—written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder in the first of their celebrated collaborations—sparkles with screwball witticisms.
Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1937 • United States
Starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
The madcap misunderstandings pile up in this Preston Sturges–penned screwball fairy tale that sparkles thanks to the light touch of director Mitchell Leisen. An effervescent Jean Arthur stars as t...
Directed by Lloyd Bacon • 1949 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas
Baseball goes screwball—and we don’t just mean the pitch—in this breezy sports comedy. Chemistry professor Vernon Simpson (Ray Milland) has virtually no money, so marriage to the daughter (Jean Peters)...
Directed by Tay Garnett • 1937 • United States
Starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche
A hotshot reporter, a madcap heiress, and a rivalry that gradually gives way to romance? We must be in a 1930s screwball—and a delightful one at that. Steve Leyton (Tyrone Power, in his first top-bill...