romance;comedy

<p>A fairy-tale ball, first kisses, broken hearts, and a beautiful princess wooed by a handsome prince. So much can happen during One Romantic Night! Two great ladies of the screen who could scarcely be more dissimilar -- waiflike, vulnerable Lillian Gish (in her Talkie...

<p>Tally ho! The farcical flair of Robert Montgomery meets its match in the lampooning style of British humorist P.G. Wodehouse in Piccadilly Jim, a blithe and expertly cast concoction from Hollywood's golden age of screwball comedy. Montgomery plays a London-based cartoonist whose caricatures spoil...

<p>Deborah Kerr inherits an estate and three ardent suitors in this zany romantic comedy costarring Robert Walker, Mark Stevens and Peter Lawford. When an old soldier she met during the war leaves her his ranch in Texas, British heiress Alison Kirbe (Kerr) sets sail...

<p>A trapeze artist falls for a preacher in this romantic drama starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable, based on Margaret Mayo's 1907 play. The circus has come to town and with it aerialist Polly Fisher (Davies), the queen of the air. Distracted during a...

<p>Patsy Douglas can't get a seat on the subway until she takes home the doll her ad agency is using for the Baxter Baby Food account. Then everyone makes way for the young "mother," including a mean old frozen-face named Cyrus Baxter who melts...

<p>When a European diplomat is named ambassador to the United States, he relocates to Washington, D.C., with his niece, Princess Maria, where he hopes she'll meet an eligible American bachelor. On a side trip by plane to San Francisco, Maria takes a tranquilizer to...

<p>True wit meets marital grit in this timeless Noel Coward comedy about two bon vivants who can't live without -- or with -- each other. Having barely survived the warefare of their wedlock, Amanda (Norma Shearer) and Elyot (Robert Montgomery) decide the play it...

<p>Bobby Fine (Ryan O'Neal) teaches comparative literature at a New England university. His father Jack (Jack Warden) is a hard-luck 7th-Avenue dress merchant in heavy debt to a 7-foot loan shark (Richard Kiel). To pay up, Jack gives up the business -- and babe-in-the-woods...

<p>When Sally (Charlotte Greenwood) and Eve (Leila Hyams) take a vacation together to make their rich husbands miss them, the boys (Reginald Denny and Harry Stubbs) promptly invite over two gold digging actresses (Lilian Bonds and Merna Kennedy) for an after hours "audition." But...

<p>From mailroom to boardroom -- and all the laughs in between. Future Academy Award winner* Halle Berry joins Tommy Davidson and Joseph C. Phillips in getting down to the business of hilarity, in a romantic comedy where the best things in life are free....

<p>Before she became a great star and a two-time Academy Award winner,* Jane Fonda was a screen ingenue who sent a string of bubbly romantic comedies soaring, including this charmer from the prolific pen of Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother, The Devil and Miss Jones)....

<p>Deep in the Ozarks, wrestling promoter Ed Hatch comes up with a great idea: pit his muscle-bound meathead of a wrestler against the local blacksmith, an Amazon named Sadie. Think of the publicity! Think of the ticket sales! This is the break Ed's been...

<p>Aggie Hurley (Bette Davis) is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane (Debbie Reynolds) is going to have a lavish wedding -- even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom (Ernest Borgnine) must give up...

<p>Jealousy rears its head in laughter as Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis and Van Heflin battle the green-eyed monster in The Feminine Touch, a snappy screwball comedy cowritten by Ogden Nash. A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern...

<p>When cheesecake artist Bob Randolph (Ronald Reagan) is offered $100,000 to appear on TV with the model for his world-famous pinups, he's forced to find a woman who doesn't exist. The best-kept secret in the business, "The Randolph Girl" is actually made up of...

<p>Just point her in the direction of New York's millionaires! Fresh from Missouri, plucky and ambitious Eadie Chapman (Jean Harlow) intends to bag a rich hubby without abandoning her virtue. Just act like a lady, she tells gal pal and fellow huntress Kitty (Patsy...

<p>Doris Day entered her eighth consecutive year as a Top-10 Box-Office Star when she boarded The Glass Bottom Boat, a hilarious blending of romantic comedy and the era's burgeoning spy-movie genre. Day plays Girl Friday Jennifer at a hush-hush aeronautics think tank. When colleagues...

<p>Fortune-hunting playboys woo her. Newshounds clamor for the scoop on her romances. But society-page sensation Daisy Appleby, renowned as the heiress to a cosmetic company's millions, has a plan. Weary of facing a revolving door of flower-bearing fops, she arranges a marriage of convenience...

<p>The inn's service is rude, even quarrelsome. Is this any way to treat a guest who is the most respected Shakespearean of his day? It is if you're part of a theatrical group posing as innkeepers and trying to give the renowned but pompous...

<p>Gene Kelly hits the happy road to Paris, love and laughter! The Hollywood icon - the creative force behind Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris and more musical landmarks - produces, directors and stars in a winning family comedy about two single...

<p>Astronomer Bill Whitley is so absorbed by his discovery of a comet that he scarcely notices the heavenly body close at hand, the one that belongs to his gorgeous wife Vicky. When an astrologer tells Vicky she'll meet her dream man in two weeks,...

<p>Widowed, world-famous neurosurgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) is trapped in a loveless marriage with Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner),who is interested only in Hfuhruhurr's money. On a trip to Vienna to attend a medical conference, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with a bottled brain (voiced by...

<p>Golden-Globe nominated and Emmy Award-winning Tony Randall ("Pillow Talk," TV's "The Odd Couple") plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they haven't been paying taxes. He...

<p>The reformer is Andrew Rockton Hale (Dick Powell), running for mayor on a good-government platform. The redhead is Kathleen Maguire (June Allyson), a zoo superintendent's daughter who keeps a full-grown lion as a house cat. When a corrupt party boss unjustly bounces Maguire's father...

<p>It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls the aristocratic Broadbents (real-life marrieds Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall) are intent on giving their American-educated 17-year-old daughter Jane (Sandra Dee) the right entry into society and a proper upper-class beau. One...

<p>A fool when it comes to love, Sally Middleton (Eleanor Parker) vows to give up romance and stop getting silly over men. But when her man-eating pal (Eve Arden) ditches Sgt. Bill Page (Ronald Reagan) for a date with a superior officer, Sally feels...

<p>One bride, three grooms. Romantic daydreamer Janie (Ginger Rogers) has gotten herself engaged to three eligible guys. Tom (George Murphy) offers reliability. (Nice, but where's the moon-June-swoon?) Dick (Alan Marshal) has money. (Handy, but can a bankroll keep you warm at night?) Harry (Burgess...

<p>Concert pianist Cynthia Potter (June Allyson) has impeccable musicianship, yet the chance of her gaining the attention of busy impresario Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson) hovers somewhere between none and never. But circumstances change - and comedy complications follow - when she adds bobby-sox and...

<p>Film greats Kirk Douglas ("Spartacus") and Susan Hayward ("Valley of the Dolls") star in this comedy about a fiery news publisher who knows all about the past of a military diplomat. But instead of discrediting him, she ends up falling in love. Co-starring Jim...

<p>Look out fellas -- it's "The Gimme Girls"! The Warner Bros. dream team of Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell had the glam and the gams to knock ANYone out of a Great Depression, and Warner Bros. was the only studio with the guts to...

<p>Jennifer Love Hewitt ("The Tuxedo," "I Know What You Did Last Summer") and Will Friedle (TV's "Batman Beyond," TV's "Boy Meets World") headline this comedy about a high school student's desperate quest for a condom so he can consummate a long hoped for encounter....

<p>Larry Blake (Melvyn Douglas) is growing a bit blase about his outdoorsy bride Karin (Greta Garbo). So Karin masquerades as her temptress twin, suggestively purring "I'm partial to the indoor life" in a bid to pique her husband's romantic attention -- and the sophisticated...

<p>Dignity Always. That's the motto of the ritzy department store (haberdashery on the 3rd floor, stuffed shirts in the boardroom) owned by the Spear family -- and that's the comportment corporate scion John Spear (Reginald Denny) expects of his intended bride Josephine (Evelyn Venable),...

<p>Their dialogue zings with Pre-Code sauciness, their barbed glee skewers social norms and their creativity includes daffy flights of song and dance. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, from their feature debut in 1929 until 1937, tickled fans with a steady skein of comedy madness....

<p>"Why be good when it's so much more thrilling to be bad?" asked the ad campaign for this slightly naughty and oh-so-knowing silent-movie celebration of the flapper era. The star of Flaming Youth - vivacious Colleen Moore - again captures the rebellious flamboyance of...