Sentences with phrase «screwball comedy starring»

It's like a classic Hollywood screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.

Frank Capra's whimsical screwball comedy starring John Barrymore and James Stewart was one of the director's great masterpieces and the highest - grossing film from 1938, making it a favorite to win Best Picture.

The Awful Truth (The Criterion Collection), directed by Leo McCarey, is a 1937 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

Ball Of Fire — This Howard Hawks screwball comedy stars Gary Cooper as the head of an eccentric group of brainy encyclopedists made up of some of the best character actors of the 30s and 40s.

Not exact matches

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

Lighthearted screwball comedy that serves its two stars, Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, very well.

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star in a zany send - up of the screwball comedies of the 1930s with Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?.

Oscar - winners Cary Grant («The Awful Truth,» «North by Northwest») and Katharine Hepburn («The African Queen,» «On Golden Pond») star in this screwball comedy classic about a madcap heiress who upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced zoology professor.

Though director Noah Baumbach's MISTRESS AMERICA (the title referring to a show one of the protagonists wants to create) isn't technically a superhero, I say star - producer - co-writer Greta Gerwig is saving the screwball comedy with her astute takes on interesting characters.

Least successfully, it's also a romantic comedy starring Jane (played by Natalie Portman) and her screwball crew.

In between his grey - haired later roles and beginnings in Vaudeville, Grant first became a star in Hollywood thanks to his roles as a comic leading man in screwball comedies.

The Bachelor And The Bobby - Soxer — «Screwball comedy that isn't very funny, though it stars Cary Grant as a celebrity caught between two sisters: teenaged Shirley Temple and judge Myrna Loy.

-- «My Man Godfrey» (1936): This 1936 screwball comedy, starring Carole Lombard and William Powell, is a beloved classic.

2:00 pm — TCM — Twentieth Century In one of the films that defines «screwball comedy» (along with The Awful Truth and Bringing Up Baby), John Barrymore plays a histrionic theatre producer trying to convince his star Carole Lombard to come back to him — both professionally and personally.

Written by Peter Straughan, and according to its credits «inspired» by the 2005 documentary film of the same name, «Our Brand is Crisis» uneasily mixes the star vehicle with the screwball - political - comedy / satire with the (half - heartedly, in the end) impassioned call to social consciousness arms.

Continuing an ongoing friendship that started with Freaks & Geeks, Seth Rogen and James Franco starred in this screwball comedy about stoners fleeing hitmen and police after witnessing a murder.

The stars aren't the whole show, not when they're backed by the usual assortment of Coen - kooks (you just know that a character named «Wheezy Joe» will be good for some laughs) as well as a screenplay that ably captures the long - established rhythms of the screwball comedy.

The movie's slapstick shenanigans and ridiculous plotting wear thin, but screwball comedies have always relied heavily on the chemistry of the stars.

More screwball comedy than physics lecture, the play stars Anne - Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham and reunites many of the team behind the massively successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

An emblematic screwball comedy, the film was a jumping - off point to dissect the genre commonly referred to as the «Chick Flick»; charting some of its history, analysing its place in our modern world of female action stars, and questioning the generally held belief that the style has outplayed its usefulness.

She's Funny That Way, 2015 Directed by Peter Bogdanovich Starring Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson, Rhys Ifans, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Illeana Douglas, Debi Mazar, Richard Lewis, Cybill Shepard, Austin Pendleton and Jennifer Aniston SYNOPSIS: A screwball comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway production.

Inherently negating any life - or - death suspense, the skipping - record structure is more conducive to comedy — and that's how director Christopher Landon (Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse) often plays it, relying heavily on his star's elastic screwball reaction shots.

Oldham and Woodson previously collaborated on the 2007 screwball comedy «Cain and Abel,» starring rap icon Flavor Flav.

10:00 am / 9:00 am — TCM — Twentieth Century In one of the films that defines «screwball comedy» (along with The Awful Truth and Bringing Up Baby), John Barrymore plays a histrionic theatre producer trying to convince his star Carole Lombard to come back to him — both professionally and personally.

Nothing Sacred — Fredric March and Carole Lombard star in this screwball comedy about a reporter writing a series of stories on a young girl dying from radium poisoning.

9:00 am — TCM — Midnight A lesser - known screwball comedy written by Billy Wilder before he started directing (it's directed by Mitchell Leisen), starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, and Mary Astor.

Willis energetically interprets the backbiting that dominates this modern screwball comedy in which the secret male lover of a professional basketball star finds himself on the outside after his lover marries a basketball groupie.