Showing posts with label Miriam Hopkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miriam Hopkins. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Somewhere Between the Moon and New York City

Officially (or according to me) the first and the last screwball comedy:

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

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Dress up your Lingerie

"Let me see your underwear."

After a slap, rivals decide to swap positions in The Smiling Lieutenant