

all the usual suspects perhaps and a few odd choices, fans of Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers would seem well catered for. (reviews of some of these, like THEODORA, at 1930s label).
No THIN
MAN though or IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT or TROUBLE IN PARADISE. My '30s
choice recently, Borzage's HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT begins like a screwball before ending like another TITANIC - 25 years
after that ship sank!
Hawks' BRINGING UP BABY remains one of the most loved '30s comedy classics [it and Billy Wilder's SOME LIKE IT HOT will always be in my top 10 as the 2 best comedies ever], its full of great moments, here are just a few .... those early scenes of screwball heiress Susan Vance (Hepburn in in one of her best roles) driving Cary nuts remain timelessly funny as well as Cary's "I've just gone gay" moment and I always crack up as she climbs onto the dinosaur .... no wonder Bogdanovich pillaged it for the almost-as-good WHAT'S UP DOC!
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