screwball comedy

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screwball comedy

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Elliott Nugent
…some to be the first screwball comedy. It was set during the Depression and centres on spoiled siblings who must find jobs after their mother loses the family fortune; it starred Claudette Colbert and Mary Boland. Nugent’s other early films include the melodrama If I Were Free (1933), with Irene…
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…some to be the first screwball comedy. It was set during the Depression and centres on spoiled siblings who must find jobs after their mother loses the family fortune; it starred Claudette Colbert and Mary Boland. Nugent’s other early films include the melodrama If I Were Free (1933), with Irene…
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romantic comedy
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…at the time as “screwball comedies” and often depicted elegantly dressed men and women in opulent Art Deco settings engaged in madcap antics, their shared capacity for mischief-making and play serving as proof of their suitability as lovers.
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…at the time as “screwball comedies” and often depicted elegantly dressed men and women in opulent Art Deco settings engaged in madcap antics, their shared capacity for mischief-making and play serving as proof of their suitability as lovers.
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