The Art of the Screwball Comedy

<p> Part One of this entertaining exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins in the mid-1930s discussing the careers of popular stars such as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard and well-known supporting players like Walter Connally and Ralph Bellamy (also Asta the dog top animal star of the 1930s!). Writers and directors are given their due: Frank Capra Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges just to name a few.</p><p> Part Two the meat of the book takes an in depth look at the films from the genre's inception (1934's <I>It Happened One Night</I>) to the recent 2003 <I>Down with Love</I> and the stars that appear in them--Clark Gable Claudette Colbert Julia Roberts Richard Gere--ending with some thoughts about the future.</p>