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Arthur, JeanSummary: Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY LADSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIFSummary: An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EASArthur, Jean
Summary: Comedy in which the daughter of an eccentric family falls for the son of a wealthy New York family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008