Screwballs of the silver screen: a treasured comedy genre turns 70: the 1934 releases of "It Happened One Night" and "Twentieth Century" launched Hollywood into an era of madcap zaniness that endures to this day.(Entertainment)(Critical Essay)

USA Today (Magazine) | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

SCREWBALL COMEDY turns 70 this year. While clown comedy has existed since the earliest days of cinema, the screwball variety arose during the Great Depression. One might liken it to an innovative brand of farce, where the old boy-meets-girl formula was turned on its ear, producing free-spirited heroines who gave as good as they got.

The pioneering screwball movies from 1934 were director Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" and Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century." The former chronicles the comic misadventures of Claudette Colbert as a runaway heiress and Clark Gable ...

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