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The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Elaine May's black comedy with a Neil Simon screenplay from Bruce Jay Friedman's "A Change of Plan", stars Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, and Jeannie Berlin; a honeymooning salesman dumps his bride for Kelly, earning two Oscar nominations, and the film is now unavailable on home video.
The Lady Eve
The Lady Eve is a 1941 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck as con artist Jean Harrington and Henry Fonda as snake scientist Charles Pike, based on Monckton Hoffe's story Two Bad Hats.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken, about a small-town girl's unremembered wartime marriage and pregnancy, famous for outmaneuvering the Production Code.
The Palm Beach Story
The Palm Beach Story: 1942 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, and Rudy Vallee; released 10 December 1942.
The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner: 1940 Ernst Lubitsch romantic comedy (also known from Parfumerie) starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as Budapest shop clerks and secret pen pals; source of She Loves Me and You've Got Mail.
To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)
To Be or Not to Be (1942) is Ernst Lubitsch's anti-Nazi comedy, also called To Be or Not To Be, starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard as Warsaw theater actors who impersonate Nazis; released March 6, 1942, initially reviled, later acclaimed.
Way Out West (1937 film)
Way Out West (1937) is a Laurel and Hardy comedy-western directed by James W. Horne, released by MGM on 16 April 1937. Stan and Ollie deliver a gold mine deed in Brushwood Gulch; its score was Oscar-nominated and 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' hit UK number two in 1975.
Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore! (1949), also released as Tight Little Island, is Alexander Mackendrick's Ealing Studios comedy debut based on Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel about Hebridean islanders salvaging whisky from a shipwreck, inspired by the 1941 SS Politician wreck off Eriskay.
Woman of the Year
Woman of the Year (1942) is an MGM romantic comedy directed by George Stevens, the first of nine Spencer Tracy–Katharine Hepburn films, written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin, Oscar-winning screenplay, based loosely on columnist Dorothy Thompson.