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1930s screwball comedy films

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It Happened One Night
1934 film by Frank Capra
You Can't Take It With You
1938 film by Frank Capra
Bringing Up Baby
1938 film by Howard Hawks
Ninotchka
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. The film was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka marked the first comedy role for Garbo, and her penultimate film; she received her third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 film directed by Frank Capra
The Awful Truth
1937 film by Leo McCarey
My Man Godfrey
1936 film directed by Gregory La Cava
The Gay Divorcee
1934 film by Mark Sandrich
Trouble in Paradise
1932 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Libeled Lady
1936 film by Jack Conway
Holiday
1938 film by George Cukor
Twentieth Century
1934 film by Howard Hawks
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Midnight
1939 film by Mitchell Leisen
Merrily We Live
1938 film by Norman Z. McLeod
Theodora Goes Wild
1936 film by Richard Boleslawski
Bachelor Mother
1939 film by Garson Kanin
Nothing Sacred
1937 film by William A. Wellman
Topper
1937 film by Norman Z. McLeod
It's a Wonderful World
1939 film by W. S. Van Dyke
It's Love I'm After
1937 film by Archie Mayo
Love on the Run
1936 film by W. S. Van Dyke
Vivacious Lady
1938 film by George Stevens
Carefree
1938 film by Mark Sandrich
Holiday
1930 film by Edward H. Griffith
Love Is News
1937 film by Tay Garnett
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 film by Stephen Roberts
Easy Living
1937 film by Mitchell Leisen
I Met Him in Paris
1937 film by Wesley Ruggles
True Confession
1937 film by Wesley Ruggles
Stand-In
Stand-In is a 1937 American screwball comedy directed by Tay Garnett and starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart. The film's screenplay was written by Gene Towne and C. Graham Baker from a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. It was produced by independent producer Walter Wanger, and released by United Artists. The film is set in Hollywood and satirizes the film industry during the classical Hollywood era.
Hands Across the Table
1935 film by Mitchell Leisen
Topper Takes a Trip
1938 film by Norman Z. McLeod
Love Before Breakfast
1936 film by Walter Lang
The Gilded Lily
1935 film by Wesley Ruggles
Storm in a Teacup
1937 film by Victor Saville, Ian Dalrymple
Lucky Kids
1936 film by Paul Martin
She Couldn't Take It
1935 film by Tay Garnett
Double Wedding
1937 film by Richard Thorpe
Fools for Scandal
1938 film by Mervyn LeRoy
Boy Meets Girl
1938 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon
Wedding Present
1936 film by Richard Wallace
If You Could Only Cook
1935 film by William A. Seiter
Cafe Metropole
1937 film by Edward H. Griffith
The Moon's Our Home
1936 film by William A. Seiter
Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939 film by William Keighley
The Mad Miss Manton
1938 film by Leigh Jason