By GroovyMovieGuy on April 8, 2009
You could call this an intimate Marx Brothers movie, as most of it is set in a single hotel room. Out of this room the trio manages to stage a play, have a wild dinner on a room service cart, hide items in a stuffed moose head and accidentally free a live turkey.
Although this film [...]
Posted in Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Comedy, Groucho, Lucille Ball, Marx brothers |
By GroovyMovieGuy on May 28, 2009
Flora Whinney (Mary Boyland) advertises for a couple to share expenses on a cross-country automobile trip with her and her husband, Pinky Whinney (Charles Ruggles). They get George Edwards (George Burns) and Gracie De Vore (Gracie Allen), an unmarried couple, that put a kink into just about every mile of the journey.
Along the way, they [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Burns and Allen, Charlie Ruggles, Classic, Comedy, Screwball, W.C. Fields |
By movieMoll on May 28, 2009
These comic luminaries — Charles Ruggles, Mary Boyland, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Geroge Burns and Gracie Allen — add up to a winning hand in “Six of a Kind. Mild-mannered bank worker Pinky Whinney (Ruggles) and his wife Flora (Boland) plan a cross-country car trip to California. George and Gracie answer an ad placed by [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Burns and Allen, Charlie Ruggles, Classic, Comedy, Screwball, W.C. Fields |
By movieMoll on June 8, 2009
This is Astaire and Rogers first pairing as leads after their knockout supporting performances in “Flying Down to Rio” the year before. Lightweight plot finds Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) pursuing Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers). She’s playing hard-to-get because she’s still married to an absentee husband. Her Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) concocts a divorce plan by [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Crime, Index, Musical, Romance, Screwball | Tagged Astaire and Rogers, Best Song Oscar, Comedy, dance, Musical, Romance |
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