Screwball Comedy Movies

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During...

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young...

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian...

A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where...

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.

Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

An actor in low hours and a young interpreter who threatens to displace the former thanks to the tricks of their agent; the owner of the high...

This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles...

Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's...

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy...

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when...