For example, what they call screwball:

Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch - 1932
It Happened One Night - Frank Capra - 1934
Twentieth Century - Howard Hawks - 1934
Libeled Lady - Jack Conway - 1936
My Man Godfrey - Gregory La Cava - 1936
The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey - 1937
Easy Living - Mitchell Leisen - 1937
Nothing Sacred - William Wellman - 1937
Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks - 1938
Midnight - Mitchell Leisen - 1939
Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch - 1939
His Girl Friday - Howard Hawks - 1940
The Philadelphia Story - George Cukor - 1940
The Lady Eve - Preston Sturges - 1941
Sullivan's Travels - Preston Sturges - 1942
To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch - 1942
The Palm Beach Story - Preston Sturges - 1943
Adam’s Rib - George Cukor - 1949
Born Yesterday - George Cukor - 1950
Monkey Business - Howard Hawks - 1952
Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder - 1959

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