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Subgenre Sampler
Let George Do It! (1940)- Dir. Marcel Varnel
Feat. George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh - Ealing Studios comedy sees George Formby star as a ukulele player who unwittingly takes the wrong boat and finds himself mistaken for a British…
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, George Murphy - Filmed version of the hit Broadway musical comedy from 1922 about Irish–American immigrants starring Judy Garland, who was fresh to…
My Favourite Wife (1940)- Dir. Garson Kanin
Feat. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott - Witty marital mixup comedy with the seven–years–shipwrecked Irene Dunne returning home to discover husband Cary Grant about to embark on…
My Little Chickadee (1940)- Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. Mae West, W.C. Fields - Mae West and W.C. Fields profitably co–exist in this formula story of marital shenanigans in the Wild West, garlanded with lunatic gags, dirty…
Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart - A second marriage for a stuffy heiress is threatened by scandal. A witty, sparkling romantic farce with golden trio – Katharine Hepburn, Cary…
Remember the Night (1940)- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi… - Preston Sturges scripted this forgotten yuletide gem, about an assistant D.A. (MacMurray) who, feeling sorry for a glamorous jewel thief (Stanwyck),…
Road to Singapore (1940)- Dir. Victor Schertzinger
Feat. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour - The first of half a dozen 'Road to' films has Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as clowning, crooning rivals vying for the affections of Dorothy Lamour.
Torrid Zone (1940)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien - Caribbean–set adventure–comedy in which a fruit company executive (Pat O'Brien) has his plantation plagued by revolutionaries so he…
Another Thin Man (1939)- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Otto Kruger… - Nick and Nora, with newborn baby in tow, spend a weekend on Long Island, sleuthing out a shady character whose death threats lead to murder. Adapted…
At the Circus (1939)- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx - Ring–side high–jinx with the Marx Brothers, one of the high–lights being Groucho's rendition of 'Lydia the Tattoed lady'.
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