New York: Knopf, 1987.
Call No: 732(73) HAR
Author: Harvey, James, 1929
Edition: 1st ed
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTORS; COMEDIES; DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HOLLYWOOD; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; ROMANTIC COMEDY; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; STAR SYSTEM; ARTHUR, JEAN; ASTAIRE, FRED; BRACKEN, EDDIE; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE; COOPER, GARY; DUNNE, IRENE; GABLE, CLARK; GRANT, CARY; HARLOW, JEAN; HAWKS, HOWARD; LA CAVA, GREGORY; Lombard, Carole; LOY, MYRNA; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCAREY, LEO; MCCREA, JOEL; POWELL, WILLIAM; ROGERS, GINGER; Stanwyck, Barbara; STEVENS, GEORGE; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); FIFTH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939); PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942); SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948)
Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394503392
LON: 5273661
