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Subgenre Sampler
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers… - A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
Talk of the Town, The (1942)- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Jean Arthur - Vaguely radical factory–worker Cary Grant goes on the run after being framed for arson and manslaughter by a corrupt establishment, and hides…
To Be or Not to Be (1942)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard - Wonderful black comedy about a Polish theatre group who in the face of a German invasion, become involved in a covert operation that masquerades them…
Woman of the Year (1942)- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn - Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's endearing screen partnership ignited as disparate newspaper reporters whose personalities at once clash and…
Ball of Fire (1941)- Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews…
- Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer…
Big Store, The (1941)- Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx - Marx Bros. let loose in a department store.
Black Cat, The (1941)- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford… - A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin… - Slapstick rom–com with Cagney as cash–strapped charter pilot who is hired to kidnap a tycoon's daughter to prevent her marrying a vapid…
Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941)- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur - Tycoon Charles Coburn goes undercover to investigate union activities, and instead falls for shopgirl Jean Arthur. Well–regarded social comedy.
Hellzapoppin' (1941)- Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson - Batty and rambunctious comedy classic runs a gamut of slight gags and inspired slapstick lunacy, with wild pair Olsen and Johnson guiding the…
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