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Ten screwballs better than
The Lady Eve
or
Bringing Up Baby
(IMO):
His Girl Friday
The Awful Truth
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
My Man Godfrey
Palm Beach Story
The Shop Around the Corner
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
My Favorite Wife
If You Could Only Cook
Haven't seen them in awhile, but maybe also these:
Twentieth Century
Nothing Sacred
Trouble in Paradise
Holiday
For ita: [link]
what screwballs could you like, if you don't like those two?
See above
Holiday has the same thing going for it that Bringing up Baby does: Hepburn and Grant. My OTC.
I love Hepburn, I just find her character in Bringing Up Baby annoying in the extreme.
Actually, I do too, megan. But Cary Grant and Baby make it up to me.
Sorry, JZ. The Lady Eve made me twitch and want to throw things.
It's no Nothing Sacred.
I do love Bringing Up Baby, though, so we can meet in the middle.
Okay, I thought Heath Ledger was a brilliant idea as the Joker before it happened, FTR. So there.
I prefer to believe them.
Third the sentiment that Hepburn plays (quite well, I do admit) a very annoying character in Bringing Up Baby. Second that Grant's comedic timing makes up for it.
A brilliant lesser-known screwball -- It's Love I'm After. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis play a famous but long-bickering stage couple who are invited to a country estate for the weekend -- and the daughter of the house (Olivia de Haviland) falls hard for Howard's character. With Eric Blore almost stealing the show as a valet.