The Screwball Comedy Films

<p> <I>My Man Godfrey Four's a Crowd My Favorite Wife The Devil and Miss Jones</I>--for their inspired blend of slapstick humor with casual elegance and witty repartee these movies are examples of what became known as screwball comedies. This study focuses on the genre film-by-film year-by-year providing the film enthusiast or serious researcher with an informed guide to the screen offerings of the era.</p><p> Each of the major contributors is profiled from directors (such as Capra Hawks McCarey or LaCava) to writers (Hecht Krasna Wilder and others) to the inspired lunacy of performers (Grant Lombard Dunne or MacMurray). The large filmography covers more than 50 films appearing chronologically and gives title studio date time director producer writers source photography cast plot description and background notes.</p>