Icons of Screwball Comedy. Volume two

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Call Number: DVD Comedy Icons
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Theodora goes wild is from an original story by Mary McCarthy.
Videorecordings of films originally released 1936-1944.
Special features: A color rhapsody cartoon: Mad hatter; original theatrical trailers.
Disc 1: Theodora goes wild / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; screenplay by Sidney Buchman ; directed by Richard Boleslawski -- Together again / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by Virginia Van Upp ; story by Stanley Russell and Herbert Biberman ; screenplay by Virginia Van Upp and F. Hugh Herbert ; directed by Charles Vidor.
Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by William Perlberg ; story by Aleen Leslie ; screenplay by George Seaton and Ken Englund ; directed by Alexander Hall -- A night to remember / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by Samuel Bischoff ; story by Kelley Roos ; screenplay by Richard Flournoy & Jack Henley ; directed by Richard Wallace.
Theodora goes wild cast: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas.
Together again cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Charles Coburn, Mona Freeman, Jerome Courtland, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Dingle.
The doctor takes a wife cast: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick, Edmund Gwenn.
A night to remember: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne.
Disc 1: Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret. Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes. A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in Greenwich Village and almost immediately find themselves in the middle of a genuine murder case.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

fd submitted by kscapellie on July 14, 2020, 5:30pm screwball comedy

Good fun submitted by sussan on March 11, 2022, 10:05am I especially love, "A Night to Remember".
Such goofy plots, dialogue you can hear and see actors faces as they speak.