Despite a schema that covers comedy from the
inception of sound to the present, this page betrays my bias for early
comedies, with a few nods to recent movies. Could it be that today we
simply don't have talents like Sturges and Lubitsch, Grant and Lombard;
that our age is more difficult to satirize; that movies are hard pressed
to top what seems to be the inherent lunacy of modern times? Perhaps I
do not part easily with wit and satire (both affectionate and biting),
with the comical and even farcical aspects of the human predicament that
are at the heart of classical comedy.
SCREWBALL
COMEDIES
the directors
OTHER
SCREWBALL & ROMANTIC
COMEDIES
the 30s, 40s and 50s
