Romantic Comedies of the 1930s

One of the most captivating screwball comedies ever, The Awful Truth stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as the perfect comic sparring partners. Grant and Dunne are facing divorce while fighting tooth and nail over their beloved dog, Mr. Smith. Ralph Bellamy is hilarious as Dunne's new suitor, and Grant and Dunne have rarely been better. …More

Comedy about a giddy heiress who sets her sights on a stuff zoologist. …More

A lawyer sends his singer girlfriend to a psychiatrist to help her decide about marriage. …More

A Wall Street tycoon throws his wife's fur coat out a window, changing a working girl's life. …More

A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated. …More

A bump on the head reminds a boring husband he was once a con-man, and he sets out to win back his disillusioned wife.

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Runaway socialite Ellie Andrews is en route to the Big Apple to elope with a fortune-hunting flyboy. Along the way she meets crusty newspaperman Peter Warne, who's just been sacked and—unbeknownst to Ellie—plans to sell her story to get his job back. …More

An editor's fiancee and a lawyer help him trick an heiress suing his paper. Directed by Jack Conway. …More

A Paris cabby chases a showgirl hired by a rich man to pose as a baroness. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. …More

A Park Avenue socialite's new family butler is an incognito Austrian diplomat. …More

A playboy melts a Russian envoy sent to fetch three wayward comrades in Paris. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. …More

Classic comedy about hotshot reporter who exploits Vermont girl's "imminent" death from radium poisoning for headline value in N.Y.C.

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When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women.