Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey

Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges

James Harvey

734 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction lighthearted slow-paced

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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 fil...

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