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American screwball comedy films

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Some Like It Hot
1959 film directed by Billy Wilder
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 film by Doug Liman
It Happened One Night
1934 film by Frank Capra
Anora
Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a lap dancer from New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The supporting cast includes Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov.
Charade
1963 film directed by Stanley Donen
You Can't Take It With You
1938 film by Frank Capra
Bringing Up Baby
1938 film by Howard Hawks
The Philadelphia Story
1940 film by George Cukor
This Is the End
2013 American comedy film directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Trading Places
1983 film directed by John Landis
Working Girl
1988 film by Mike Nichols
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.
1941
1979 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Runaway Bride
1999 film by Garry Marshall
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 film directed by Frank Capra
The Awful Truth
1937 film by Leo McCarey
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
His Girl Friday
1940 film by Howard Hawks
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 film by Frank Capra
To Be or Not to Be
1942 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Pillow Talk
1959 film by Michael Gordon
The Great Race
1965 film by Blake Edwards
Adam's Rib
1949 film by George Cukor
Due Date
2010 film directed by Todd Phillips
Bananas
1971 comedy film by Woody Allen
What's New Pussycat?
1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner
Date Night
2010 film directed by Shawn Levy
Sullivan's Travels
1941 film by Preston Sturges
The Lady Eve
1941 film by Preston Sturges
Irma la Douce
1963 film by Billy Wilder
Son of the Mask
2005 film by Lawrence Guterman
Mouse Hunt
1997 film by Gore Verbinski
Broadway Danny Rose
1984 film by Woody Allen
The Front Page
1974 film by Billy Wilder
Blind Date
1987 film by Blake Edwards
The Change-Up
2011 film by David Dobkin
Monkey Business
1952 film by Howard Hawks
What's Up, Doc?
1972 film by Peter Bogdanovich
Ball of Fire
1941 film by Howard Hawks
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941 film by Alfred Hitchcock
The Gay Divorcee
1934 film by Mark Sandrich
My Man Godfrey
1936 film directed by Gregory La Cava
Trouble in Paradise
1932 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Hollywood Ending
2002 film by Woody Allen
The More the Merrier
1943 film by George Stevens
Oscar
1991 film directed by John Landis
Dinner for Schmucks
2010 film by Jay Roach
The Family Stone
The Family Stone is a 2005 American Christmas comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Produced by Michael London and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it stars an ensemble cast, including Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Luke Wilson.
Old Dogs
2009 film by Walt Becker
Overboard
1987 film by Garry Marshall
Who's That Girl
1987 film directed by James Foley
Lover Come Back
1961 film by Delbert Mann
My Favorite Wife
1940 film by Garson Kanin
Down with Love
2003 film by Peyton Reed
Libeled Lady
1936 film by Jack Conway
Hit Man
2023 film directed by Richard Linklater
She's Funny That Way
2014 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Boat Trip
2002 film by Mort Nathan
American Dreamz
2006 film directed by Paul Weitz
The Palm Beach Story
1942 film by Preston Sturges