Films in TIFF in the Park 2012: Screwball Comedies

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  • The Palm Beach Story
  • Preston Sturges

  • Copious wackiness ensues when a devoted young wife (Claudette Colbert) determines to head to Palm Beach for a quickie divorce from her impoverished husband and an almost as quick marriage to a rich man, for the most natural of reasons: so that she can funnel her newfound wealth back to her soon-to-be ex.

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  • Raising Arizona
  • Joel Coen

  • Nicolas Cage gives one of his signature performances as the affable, loquacious, philosophical ex-con Herbert I. "Hi" McDunnough, who gets embroiled in a wild baby-kidnapping plot along with his ex-cop wife (Holly Hunter) in Joel and Ethan Coen’s cracked comedy.

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  • His Girl Friday
  • Howard Hawks

  • A conniving newspaper editor (Cary Grant) will do anything to get his ex-wife and star reporter (Rosalind Russell) back on the job in Howard Hawks' frantically funny farce.

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  • Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  • Alfred Hitchcock

  • In this rare straight comedy outing from Alfred Hitchcock, a happily married couple (Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard) discover that their marriage certificate was invalid — but when they are obliged to head to the altar again, they suddenly have doubts as to whether they should ever have been together at all.

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  • The Philadelphia Story
  • George Cukor

  • On the eve of her wedding, a haughty socialite (Katharine Hepburn) has her carefully laid plans thrown off track by the arrival of her ex-husband (Cary Grant) and a smitten reporter (James Stewart) in this sophisticated, Academy Award®–winning comedy classic.

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  • What's Up, Doc?
  • Peter Bogdanovich

  • Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal mug their way through some supremely silly situations in Peter Bogdanovich's 1970s salute to the classic screwball comedies of yesteryear.

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  • The Lady Eve
  • Preston Sturges

  • When a beautiful con artist (Barbara Stanwyck) falls for, and is spurned by, her latest target (Henry Fonda), she concocts a brilliantly simple scheme to get her own back.

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  • It Happened One Night
  • Frank Capra

  • An out-of-work newspaper reporter (Clark Gable) hitches himself to an heiress on the run (Claudette Colbert) to grab an exclusive story in Frank Capra's beloved, multiple Academy Award®–winning classic.

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