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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404977730
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404977732
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 17932
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 1934
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Carole Lombard and John Barrymore star in this all-time classic screwball comedy based on the Charles MacArthur Ben Hecht Broadway hit and directed by Howard Hawks. It s the story of a maniacal Broadway director (Barrymore) who transforms shopgirl Carole Lombard from a talented amateur to a smashing Great White Way success adored by public and press.System Requirements:Running Time: 91 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396106710 Manufacturer No: 10671
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Screwball comedy was practically invented by this classic Howard Hawks picture, a breathless farce with not an ounce of sentimentality. John Barrymore, in magnificent form, plays egomaniacal Broadway producer Oscar Jaffe, who molds his latest protégé, Mildred Plotka, into elegant thee-a-tuh star Lily Garland (Carole Lombard). The last hour of the picture has Oscar and Lily, now on the outs, battling each other on the Chicago-to-New York train. These two marvelous creatures are quintessential Hawks characters, figures of pure style who can't exist without the adrenaline and spark so amply supplied by the Hecht-MacArthur script. Hawks's giddyup pacing anticipates Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, and his deployment of character actors (notably Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns, as Jaffe's long-suffering, oft-fired flunkies) is sublime. Barrymore and Lombard take it at full speed, grand and horrid and silly and probably meant for each other. --Robert Horton
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This is the great screwball comedy based on the stage play of the same name. It is said that the screwball comedy was basically invented by this film. It was filmed in 1934, about the same time as It Happened One Night. John Barrymore is the playwright, producer and director of plays who discovers a lingerie model played by Carole Lombard and puts her in his newest play. She can't act and everyone tells him to get rid of her but he bullies her into a great actress. She becomes a star and is ... Read More
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Howard Hawks filmed this elegantly madcap look at actor's egos. John Barrymore, with some help from Carole Lombard, stayed upright long enough to give one more great performance on film. He's a producer with an ego bigger than the Great White Way and she's a lingere model he molds into the toast of Broadway.
Once she becomes a huge star, however, she wants to live it up rather than sit around and discuss his genius. His hilariously insane jealousy drives her to Hollywood where she becomes ... Read More
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"She's marvelous, just as I thought. Fire, passion, everything," John Barrymore's maniacal producer character dramatically declares, speaking of Lily Garland (the woman played by Carole Lombard). "The gold is all there, but we must mine it." And mine it he does. That's the plot of this film---transforming "a shop girl from a talented amateur to a smashing Great White Way success adored by the public and press"---which is based on a play; and it very much feels like a play, with John Barrymore's bellowing ... Read More
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Master filmmaker Howard Hawks' sure hand at outrageous, character-driven farce is what maneuvers this seminal 1934 screwball comedy into its acknowledged status as a film classic. More than anything else here, he appears responsible for the transformation of Carole Lombard's screen persona from uncertain glamour girl to first-class comedy pro, as she vividly portrays Mildred Plotka, a struggling actress nurtured by Oscar Jaffe, an egomaniacal Broadway impresario. Through his Svengali-like techniques, he has changed ... Read More
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When one thinks of great cinematic acting performances the usual associations are with Brando in "Streetcar Named Desire" or DeNiro in "Raging Bull" or Garbo in "Camille". You know, the serious high brow kind of stuff. However another kind of brilliance can be seen in this wonderful 1934 release. It is John Barrymore positively filling the screen with an over the top -- way way over the top --portrayal of theater impresario Oscar "OJ" Jaffe in "Twentieth Century." He is a positive howl, a scream a preening ... Read More
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