Screwball Comedy Movies

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

A third grade basketball coach discovers he was born on a leap year making him eight years old., allowing him to play on the team and have another...

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Bumbershoot is a silent comedy about a hapless man desperate to find an umbrella strong enough to make his life whole.

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

Two amusement park workers - a cowboy and a gorilla - dive into an absurd conversation about life, love, and personal drama.

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During...

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's...

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris....

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian...

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.