During the Great Depression, the screwball comedy was one of the most popular film genres, initially established by classics such as It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey,and The Awful Truth, which ...

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Stylish and smart. When New York screenwriters got jobs in Hollywood in the 1930s, both the tempo and the temperature in the studio rose. It was called "screwball" and it only lasted for ten years.