Top 10 Screwball Comedies

One of the defining performers of Screwball Comedy genre, Carole Lombard was also a savvy businesswoman who stood out in the male dominated film industry of the '30s. Dr. Olympia Kiriakou explains how Lombard became the Screwball queen. See two of Lombard’s best films tonight during our Screwball Comedy spotlight — MY MAN GODFREY ('36) at 8pm ET followed by HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE ('35) at 9:45pm ET. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. The script was written specifical

The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Based on the 1922 play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman (1886-1944), the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin divorce proceedings, only to interfere with one another's romances. This was McCarey's first film for Columbia Pictures, with the dialogue and comic elements largely improvised by the director and actors. Irene Dunne's costumes were designed by Robert Ka