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 Richard Boleslawski • 1936 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
Irene Dunne established herself as one of screwball’s brightest comedic talents with this exuberant tale of a small-town girl living a double life as the secret author of a scandalous bes...
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1934 • United States
Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
Carole Lombard established her genius for screwball comedy with this madcap classic, which practically set the template for the genre. Scripted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (adapting th...
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 aristocra...
