Top 10 Screwball Comedies

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The screwball comedy is a genre of comedy which is unconventional, goes in different directions, and behaves in unexpected ways.

10. Ball Of Fire (1941) - Howard Hawks
09. Holiday (1938) - George Cukor
08. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) - Frank Capra
07. Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Howard Hawks
06. His Girl Friday (1940) - Howard Hawks
05. My Man Godfrey (1936) - Gregory La Cava
04. Midnight (1939) - Mitchell Leisen
03. The Philadelphia Story (1940) - George Cukor
02. The Lady Eve (1941) - Preston Sturges
01. The Awful Truth (1937) - Leo McCarey

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  • None of the Thin Man series?

  • I've seen all of these apart from Midnight - you've inspired me to check it out. :)

    I was really underwhelmed by The Awful Truth personally. And you're missing one of my favourites - The Palm Beach Story.

  • @grabit1 I need to watch it again. I do love Frank Capra. And Stanwyck/Cooper, who were also fabulous in Ball of Fire.

  • @90lysander I'd agree that MEET JOHN DOE doesn't rate as screwball comedy. Although I think it is a treasure nevertheless.

  • "It happened one night" should be in the top 10. But I do love all of your choices.

  • I hate to say since De Niro is for me usually truly a wretched waste in almost any movie unless he is playing somebody stupid, which I have no doubt he actually is, but he positively shone in Midnight Run, one of the few modern comedies even close to these,

  • #5 My Man Godfrey, I would relace with "It happened one Night" (1934)

  • maybe because people want to enjoy in such a depressing time

  • How can you have a top ten screwball list without It Happened One Night??? Crazy.

    As for Meet John Doe, I think it's too dark to qualify. Barely even a comedy.

  • I like your list. Cary Grant could've gotten a best actor award in a screwball comedy if they had given such an award. I loved Mr.Deeds Goes To Town,but I wish there had been room for Meet John Doe. I wonder why so many of the great screwball comedies seem to have been made in the 1930s?

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