Directed by Preston Sturges • 1944 • United States
Starring Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Preston Sturges’s uproarious screwball riot pushed the Production Code to its limit with its taboo-testing treatment of sex, marriage, and small-town morals. After a wild night out on the town, GI-loving good-time girl Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) finds herself married, pregnant, and with no idea who the father is. Enter the hapless Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), a local 4-F boy with a yen for Trudy, who may be her ticket out of this jam . . . Packed with outrageous one-liners, double entendres, and wild slapstick gags, THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK finds Sturges at his most audaciously irreverent, leaving no sacred cow—from motherhood to religion—unskewered.
Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1932 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns
Snappy dialogue, Raoul Walsh’s dynamic direction, and spirited performances from Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett make this offbeat comic treat one of the small glories of the pre-Code era. New York C...
Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...
Directed by Leo McCarey • 1937 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each oth...
