This is Duane Byrge’s list of Screwball Comedy films from 1934-1942, as listed and discussed in his work reviewing the genre. As he defines the movies, "A screwball comedy was at heart a love story. It’s central romance was frequently instigated by an aggressive, even eccentric woman whose efforts to prod her more stodgy and conventional beau along the rocky road to the altar primed the comic mechanisms for a great deal of humor-by-embarassment. Improbable events, mistaken identities, and ominously misleading circumstantial evidence quickly compounded upon each other, albeit by seemingly logical progression, until a frantic conclusion in which even the impending marriage gives only faint promise of providing some whit of order as antidote to the previous narrative chaos," (Byrge, p.3). That said, I like Bringing Up Baby best. (found at: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780786411061-2)
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It Happened One Night
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Twentieth Century
by Howard Hawks
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The Thin Man (Keepcase)
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The Gilded Lily
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Ruggles of Red Gap / DVD CHARLES LAUGHTON
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
by John Ford
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She Married Her Boss
by Gregory La Cava
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Hands Across the Table
by Mitchell Leisen
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
by Stephen Roberts
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My Man Godfrey
by Gregory Lacava
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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
by Richard Boleslawski
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Libeled Lady
by Jack Conway
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I Met Him in Paris
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Woman Chases Man
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Easy Living
by Mitchell Leisen
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Topper/Topper Returns
by Norman Z. McLeod
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The Awful Truth
by Leo McCarey
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Nothing Sacred
by William A. Wellman
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True Confession
by Wesley Ruggles
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Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
by Ernst Lubitsch
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Joy of Living
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Vivacious Lady (1938)
by George Stevens
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Holiday
by George Cukor
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Four's a Crowd (1938)
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You Can't Take It With You (1938) (Sub)
by Frank Capra
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The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
by Leigh Jason
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Merrily We Live
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Topper Takes a Trip
by Norman Z. McLeod
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Midnight (1939)
by Mitchell Leisen
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good girls go to paris
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Bachelor Mother (1939)
by Garson Kanin
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Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
by Gregory La Cava
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His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
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Too Many Husbands
by Wesley Ruggles
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My Favorite Wife
by Garson Kanin
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
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turnabout
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The Philadelphia Story
by George Cukor
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
by Preston Sturges
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That Uncertain Feeling
by Ernst Lubitsc
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Topper Returns
by Roy Del Ruth
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The Devil and Miss Jones
by Sam Wood
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The Bride Came C.O.D.
by William Keighley
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
by Alexander Hall
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Unfinished Business
by Steven Okazaki
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You Belong To Me (1941)
by Wesley Ruggles
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Two Faced Woman (1941)
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Ball of Fire
by Howard Hawks
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