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DEDICATED TO THE ART, SCIENCE, AND PRESERVATION OF SCREWBALL COMEDY
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CARY GRANT: A Brilliant Disguise
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Becoming Carole Lombard

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BECOMING CAROLE LOMBARD: Stardom, Comedy and Legacy
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FROM REVERENCE TO RAPE, The Treatment of Women in the Movies
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BECOMING NICK & NORA, The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy
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SCREWBALL, Hollywood’s Mapcap Romantic Comedies
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CROOKED, BUT NEVER COMMON, The Films of Preston Sturges
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HOLLYWOOD BEDLAM, Classic Screwball Comedies
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THE ART OF SCREWBALL COMEDY, Mapcap Entertainment from the 1930s to Today
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ROMANTIC COMEDY IN HOLLYWOOD, From Lubitsch to Sturgis
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THE SCREWBALL COMEDY FILMS, a History and Filmography, 1934-1942
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SCREWBALL COMEDY AND FILM NOIR, Unexpected Connections
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ROMANTIC VS. SCREWBALL COMEDY, Charting the Difference
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LUNATICS AND LOVERS, a Tribute to the Giddy and Glittering Era of the Screen’s “Screwball” and Romantic Comedies
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THE RUNAWAY BRIDE, Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
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HOW DID LUBITSCH DO IT?
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ERNST LUBITSCH: Laughter in Paradise, a Biography
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY, the Life and Art of Preston Sturges
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TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS, a Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
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LAUGHING IN THE DARK, Movie Comedy from Groucho to Woody
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PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS, The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
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FROM SCARFACE TO SCARLETT, American Films in the 1930’s
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MOVIES OF THE THIRTIES
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