Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)

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The Screwball Story

Olympia Kiriakou

21 episodes

9 months ago

Celebrating classical Hollywood's daffiest genre.

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Celebrating classical Hollywood's daffiest genre.

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Film History

TV & Film,

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Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)

The Screwball Story

39 minutes 55 seconds

2 years ago

Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)

On this episode, I discuss Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard.

Works Cited:

Elizabeth Kendall, Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002).

Olympia Kiriakou, Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life, dir. Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (Germany: Sunset Mark Productions, 1978).

Joseph McBride, Hawks on Hawks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).

Todd McCarthy, Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (New York: Grove Press, 2000).

Andrew Sarris, "The Sex Comedy Without Sex," American Film 3 (March 1978), 12-13.

Larry Swindell, Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard (New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1975).

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