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Feb 152 min read
Hidden Gems (Comedy)
Here are three lesser-known titles you may have missed, but I think they definitely deserve some love: Hands Across the Table (1935) Back...
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Dec 15, 20242 min read
Sturges & Sullivan
Preston Sturges had one of the greatest winning streaks in screen history. Over a five-year period in the 1940s, he wrote and directed...
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Jan 1, 20242 min read
Big-Screen Screwball Queen
Screwball comedies ignited movie screens in the depths of the Depression – and the star who lit the match was Carole Lombard. Beginning...
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Nov 1, 20232 min read
Some Don't Like "Some Like It Hot..."
...and by “some,” I mean “me.” I know, I know. I should be crazy about any film that tops most critics’ lists of classic comedies. Trust...
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Aug 15, 20233 min read
Films of 1948: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Let me admit upfront that this Cary Grant comedy isn’t Philadelphia Story-great, nor did it launch a Thin Man-like franchise for Grant...
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Jul 1, 20233 min read
Films of 1943: The More the Merrier
In 1942, Jean Arthur’s career stalled out. She refused the roles her studio offered, which put her on the guano list with her boss,...
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Jul 29, 20202 min read
Buster Keaton: King of Comedy
If Mount Rushmore honored comedians instead of presidents, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd would be carved in granite as...
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