Screwball Comedy Movies
BRINGING UP BABY
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks, pairing Katharine Hepburn as the impulsive Susan Vance with Cary Grant as the...
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
An instant classic, It Happened One Night (1934) follows heiress Ellie Andrews who runs away to marry the man she loves, only to be helped by a wily...
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
A fast-talking screwball comedy set in a bustling newspaper office, His Girl Friday follows star reporter Hildy Johnson as she plans to quit...
THE AWFUL TRUTH
The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball romantic comedy directed by Leo McCarey. Irene Dunne plays Louise, a witty socialite who begins to suspect her...
BALL OF FIRE
Ball of Fire is a 1941 Howard Hawks screwball comedy starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. A shy, scholarly professor and his eccentric coauthors...
THE PALM BEACH STORY
An upbeat, fast-talking Preston Sturges screwball comedy from 1942, The Palm Beach Story follows a couple whose plan to land a life of luxury in Palm...
MY MAN GODFREY
My Man Godfrey (1936) is a landmark screwball comedy directed by Gregory La Cava. When a down-on-his-luck man named Godfrey (William Powell) is...
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Some Like It Hot (1959), directed by Billy Wilder, is a landmark American comedy about two down-on-their-luck musicians who flee Chicago’s mob by...
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