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The Perfect Furlough
The Perfect Furlough is a 1958 Universal-International romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as a soldier and psychologist on a rigged Paris furlough, with Linda Cristal and Keenan Wynn.
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), also known by its working title The Sleeping Prince, is a romantic comedy directed by Laurence Olivier, starring Marilyn Monroe as Elsie Marina, the only film of Marilyn Monroe Productions, adapted from Terence Rattigan's play.
The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man (1952), John Ford's Technicolor romantic comedy starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, adapted from Maurice Walsh's 1933 Saturday Evening Post story, set in the fictional village of Innisfree (filmed in Cong, County Mayo), winner of Oscars for Best Director and Color Cinematography.
The Reluctant Debutante
The Reluctant Debutante is a 1958 MGM comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, and John Saxon, adapted from William Douglas Home's play about the last London debutante season.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch (1955) is Billy Wilder's comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, adapted from George Axelrod's Broadway play, famous for the white subway-grate dress scene and shaped by Hays Code censorship.
The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)
The Shaggy Dog (1959) is Walt Disney's first live-action comedy, directed by Charles Barton, in which Tommy Kirk's Wilby Daniels becomes a Bratislavian sheepdog via a magic ring. A surprise hit earning over $8 million domestically, it spawned sequels and remakes.
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) is a Columbia Pictures satirical comedy directed by Richard Quine, starring Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas, adapted from the Kaufman-Teichmann Broadway play; it won the Oscar for Best Black-and-White Costume Design.
The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (八月十五夜の茶屋) is MGM's 1956 comedy directed by Daniel Mann, starring Marlon Brando as Okinawan interpreter Sakini and Glenn Ford as Captain Fisby, adapted from John Patrick's Pulitzer-winning play about a postwar Okinawa teahouse built instead of a school.
The Tender Trap
The Tender Trap is a 1955 MGM romantic comedy directed by Charles Walters, starring Frank Sinatra as bachelor agent Charlie Reader and Debbie Reynolds as Julie Gillis, adapted by Julius J. Epstein from the Shulman–Smith play, with the Oscar-nominated Van Heusen–Cahn title song.
The Trouble with Harry
The Trouble with Harry is Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 Paramount black comedy, based on Jack Trevor Story's 1949 novel, in which Vermont villagers repeatedly bury and exhume a corpse each believes they killed; a US box-office flop that became Hitchcock's stated personal favorite.
Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 20th Century-Fox romantic comedy-drama directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan and Maggie McNamara, about three American secretaries in Rome; it won Oscars for color cinematography and its title song.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is Frank Tashlin's 1957 Fox CinemaScope satire starring Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield, adapted loosely from George Axelrod's Broadway play about an adman and a movie star.
Zelig
Zelig is a 1983 American mockumentary comedy directed by and starring Woody Allen, about a 1920s "human chameleon" who changes to match those around him.