Browse: Home / Screwball

Screwball

You are browsing the Screwball tag archive.

Horse Feathers

By GroovyMovieGuy on June 19, 2009

The Marx Brothers go to college in “Horse Feathers,” but not with honors. This movie is more like a series of sketches rather than an evolving plot.
Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) becomes head of Huxtable College which his son Frank (Zeppo Marx) attends. The new president decides this backwater school needs to set [...]

Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a response

Six of a Kind

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 , , , , , | Leave a response

Six of a Kind

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 , , , , , | Leave a response

Here Comes Cookie

By movieMoll on May 25, 2009

Gracie Allen’s madcap comedy is fully unleashed in “Here Comes Cookie.”
Gracie’s millionaire father Harrison Allen (George Barbier) signs control of his fortune over to Gracie for two months in a ploy to convince her sister’s gold-digging suitor Ramon (Rafael Storm) that she and her father are penniless. In Gracie’s perpetually confused mind, she believes her [...]

Posted in Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged , , , , | Leave a response

Here Comes Cookie

By GroovyMovieGuy on May 25, 2009

George Burns and Gracie Allen play a rich man’s lawyer and daughter who wind up in a tangled web of wackiness. Daddy leaves his New York mansion to spend some time at his childhood home and leaves his money — temporarily — to his daughter for a ruse. The rich man goes to the country [...]

Posted in Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged , , , , | Leave a response

Carefree

By GroovyMovieGuy on May 17, 2009

Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. She’s taken. There’s complications. It’s Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in “Carefree.”
Astaire plays a psychiatrist who tries to do the right thing for his patient portrayed by Rogers. Guess what it leads to? Yep, dancing and romance.
One of the best dance numbers is a solo by Astaire dancing [...]

Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Musical, Romance, Screwball | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a response

Next Page »

Tags