Screwball Comedy Movies

Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt...

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he...

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has...

Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret...

Ma Si-tsang is memorable in his comedic roles for being lively and down to earth, making a stark contrast with the tough and feisty Hung Sin Nui, and...

Eddie York is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys...

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat...

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late...

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Avittam Thirunal Narayana Varma's daughter Malavika Thampuratti walks out of the palace after falling in love with Abdul Rahman who gets severely...

Composer Gary Stuart and his wife, Connie, have an argument over her alleged affair. The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to...

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to...

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love...

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...