Screwball Comedy Movies

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

Two amusement park workers - a cowboy and a gorilla - dive into an absurd conversation about life, love, and personal drama.

A comedic montage about two girl friends who spend all day in bed performing cathartic bits

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During...

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

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

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...

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a...

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young...

After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering,...

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 –...

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

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....

Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running...

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...