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 films ...

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