Screwball comedy
Screwball comedies are an American genre of comedy movies. This genre became popular during the Great Depression. It first became popular with It Happened One Night in 1934.
The elements of the screwball comedy can be traced back to plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado about Nothing.
Screwball comedy has farce or slapstick material.
Screwball Comedy Media
Bringing Up Baby (1938) is a screwball comedy from the genre's classic period.
A screenshot from a trailer for It Happened One Night
In The Lady Eve, Jean (center, played by Barbara Stanwyck) passes herself off as an upper-class woman.
A promotional photo for the 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday
A screenshot from a trailer for How to Marry a Millionaire
One, Two, Three (1961)
