From 1930, starring Miriam Hopkins and Carole Lombard, with dialogue by Preston Sturges:
And from 1981, Arthur, starring Liza Minnelli and "Cuddly Dudley":
"The plot begins and complicates itself in a city but gets resolved in a move to world of nature--In Shakespeare this is called the green world or the golden world; in four of the seven major Hollywood comedies of remarriage this world is called Connecticut."
-Philosopher/ Screwball Comedy Scholar Stanley Cavell in Pursuits of Happiness
