The Delightful Screwball Comedies of Hepburn and Grant | Film 101

[@MothGirl007]

Cary Grant was so incredibly versatile and was fabulous at comedy, but was also just as great at drama. Love him so much!

[@ashishstarim]

He was pro at when to drama and when to be realistic even amidst everyone doing theatre acting back in the days..

[@annaross1681]

Not to mention being absolutely gorgeous!😊

[@longchamped]

OMG. I clicked in this so fast. Grant and Hepburn were the greatest screwball comedy couple of all time. Guess where my name came from. LOL. 😂

[@ann_bella]

Absolutely, from Holiday (1938)🤣🤣

[@DGenerationX1311]

Nothing I love more than Cary Grant and Screwball Comedies but the ones with Hepburn just hit differently!

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

Screwball combination with Parody

[@January.]

*screwball comedies

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

So glad Ruth Hussey won best supporting in this! Brilliant

[@timegirl7737]

I absolutely LOVE Screwball Comedies 😍Bringing up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, My Man Godfrey, Libeled Lady, Love Crazy, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Thin Man, It Happened One Night ... and the list goes on. My love of all the Classics is in honor of my Dad that I sat with watching while I grew up ❤

[@jerrywood4508]

I don't know where in the Philadelphia Story you got the idea that Tracy Lord was being forced to be 'perfect' by family pressure. If anything, she was trying to force them to be perfect. Her father even calls her out for her rigid standards.

[@cherylcouch-thomas8250]

Cary Grant in a class by himself. Screwball comedy, leading man/heart-throb. Charming and devastatingly handsome and hilarious.

[@loge10]

And also potentially dangerous... His dark side was recognized and used extremely well by Hitchcock (Suspicion, Notorious).

[@cissip6317]

Love, love, love screwball comedies.

[@MothGirl007]

Same.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

Screwball, Screwjob

[@altersja]

Oh, a tribute to my favorite movie duo of all time. Thank you so much!

[@richardmcleod1930]

Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrae made several wonderful Romantic Comedies in the 1930's (i.e. "The Richest Girl in the World" [which won an Academy Award] and "Woman Chases Man") that are all but today forgotten. A shame

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

_"Get outta here, Duffy, I'm busy!"_ 🤣🤣🤣 _His Girl Friday,_ best comedy ever...

[@matthewbaduria]

Bringing Up Baby is a great movie,timeless comedy at it's best i also liked Holiday and The Philadelphia Story,but Bringing Up Baby,is one of their best movies.Cary Grant is great in everything he does comedy and drama,he did it all.Cary Grant is pure genius.

[@susanrike7476]

Grant and Hepburn were the best screwball comedy duo of all time. They clicked. "The Philadelphia Story" raised it to another level. Because it was a balance of humor and drama. And, of course, the addition of the brilliant talent of Jimmy Stewart.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Don’t forget Ruth Hussey!

[@azohundred1353]

Katharine Hepburn, the Greatest Actress of All Time, in my humble opinion!

[@jlasf]

Unfortunately, this overlooks the importance of "The Awful Truth" (1937) with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. It's the first "comedy of remarriage" and screwball farce. Director Leo McCarey, who had previously directed The Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup", was a master of comedy. He allowed Grant and Dunne to improvise - and it shows. One of the elements of the screwball comedy is the looseness and spontaneity of the dialogue. "Holiday" and "The Philadelphia Story" are more scripted - they had both been Broadway hits.

[@derekovenshire7447]

Bringing Up Baby was one of his best but His Girl Friday was terrific too.

[@DanielOrme]

Holiday is my favorite movie ever, but I don't really think of it as a screwball comedy. It's got too many laughs for me to call it a drama, and you only realize it's a romance more than halfway through it. It's its own thing, which is part of why it's my favorite.

[@stevebonham2800]

Good God, thank you TCM for making so insightful video clips of movies I 've seen a hundred times. I'm 66 years old, so not a regular at a 101 class, but happy to see a classic represented yet again for a new market!

[@boxbo7926]

There are a lot of things I love about Holiday, but one of my favorite things about it is it’s commentary on the American Dream. It shows what it should be, Johnny’s point of view, and what the reality of it is, Julia’s point of view.

[@JoelMMathis]

HOLIDAY is too melancholic to be "screwball."

[@CthulhuInc]

those are all terrific films, and, all favourites of mine

[@terrylumpkin4219]

Those are my three favorite movies big fan of Katharine, Hepburn, and Cary Grant

[@spiffykates]

Easily my favorite genre of film. So excited for Tuesdays this month!

[@nc152-v1c]

What great timing. I finally watched Bringing Up Baby last week after putting it off for so many years like most old Hollywood comedies (seen plenty of the dramas but not much comedy). Been doing a Grant and Hepburn dive since then.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Don’t miss Holiday!

[@kkpenney444]

@@lorettanericcio-bohlman567 My favorite!

[@sandradawson4390]

I fell in love with these movies decades ago when I should have been watching Dynasty lol I couldn't figure out how come the movies then(80"s) couldn't touch the movies like the THIN MAN MOVIES I WAS OBSESSED

[@1northsparrow246]

"Movies had to be clever." What a pity that rule does not apply anymore.

[@philippapay4352]

Love the screwball comedies. However, Katharine Hepburn's accent was New England (upbringing in Hartford, CT, with summers at the beach in Old Saybrook, CT) while Cary Grant's was Bristol, England, in the southwest of the country near both Wales & Cornwall. He sounded like everyone from whence he came. She had an unusual voice, but her accent was very much educated doctor/lawyer type social classes in Hartford, CT. Neither of them was mid-Atlantic or non-specific English. And her voice had an unusual enough register that she, herself, said she thought Howard Hughes liked her because she was the only individual he could hear clearly when they spoke together. He was deaf and had a terrible time hearing and hearing in groups.

[@thebrinksf69]

Great coverage. Although the masking of sex isn't necessary anymore, it should be because its much more interesting.

[@millicentmariereyes3099]

Watched this after elle fanning mentioned she talked about doing more projects with nick hoult like hepburn and grant. And, now I understand why, The Great is big example of screwball comedy. They’re also good at playing the comedic couple.

[@sickheadache9903]

What you FAILED a to mention..was That…Katherine Hepburn bought The Philadelphia Story and picked her own cast, including her friend Cary Grant and Director George Cukor.

[@magicknight13]

I LOVE this TCM series Film 101!! ❤

[@imeanithonest5704]

Lew Ayres was quietly brilliant in this movie.

[@bash18]

this video was made for ME!

[@djtforever1414]

1:22 MPAA is not an acronym, it is an initialism - because every letter is said individually (like FBI or CIA).

[@williamsnyder5616]

This was a fun little commentary, but it left out two of the best screwball comedies of all time: ''Theodlra Goes Wild'' and ''The Awful Truth.'' 'Theodora' proved to the world that Irene Dunne was a first class comedienne, but then she topped herself with 'Truth,' the film that established Cary Grant as Hollywood's top light comedian.

[@jillkjv3816]

The Production Code was mid 1934 to 1968, not 1930.

[@jimrhodes8261]

Um, Actually…. This is from wiki… “Under Hays's leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began rigidly enforcing it in 1934.“

[@jillkjv3816]

@@jimrhodes8261 Wikipedia is not always right. Anybody can write anything there and it's not double checked for accuracy. Read up on it in published books covering the topic. Why do you think 1933 films like Golddiggers of 1933 could show multiple show girls almost naked in dance numbers but then by mid-1934 they were all dressed like maidenly virgins. ;) It's mid-1934 to 1968.

[@jimrhodes8261]

@@jillkjv3816, granted that wiki isn’t truly a credible source but when it jibes with TCM who certainly is a credible source on movie facts, it does hold more water; and as states in the wiki article, the code would have been in place for Gold Diggers but not strictly enforced yet and movies like Gold Diggers would have been one of the movies that caused them to get stricter.

[@jillkjv3816]

@@jimrhodes8261 I've had TCM for over twenty years. They even had a precode documentary and mentioned 1934 as the year the Code started. Just because no one picked up on the narrator's error that doesn't mean that 1930 is correct. When you've watched a lot of precode pictures up through mid-1934 you can tell the big difference.

[@NJCUJan]

Insightful and entertaining video!

[@nigelwaters7864]

Lew Ayres in Holiday was heartbreaking.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

CK Dexter-Haven 💨

[@Shell4226]

Macauley Connor's no home-spun tag, my pet.

[@peterhaslund]

My baby got back!

[@Nieghorn]

Didn't that dog also feature in a bunch? Pretty sure I just saw him in The Awful Truth.

[@lynnturman8157]

I don't think screwball comedies were ever intended to be social commentaries. Yeah, a lot of them dealt with class warfare but only because they were made during the depression. Screwball comedies were just comedies that tended to emphasize slapstick humor in a world that devolved into chaos & anarchy. Any analysis beyond that is over thinking them & putting your own value judgement on them.

[@theastewart6721]

Funny I was just thinking about him today. He was a very versatile actor. I have to say I love his comedies with Irene Dunne the best as well as their movie Penny Seranade. Loved all his movies!

[@erinbyerly6268]

You think a genre that repeatedly focused heavily on the antics of the upper class during one of the worst periods of economic depression in the country's history was devoid of social commentary? What?

[@Jimfromearthoo7]

Give me Wheeler and Woosley any day! A bunch free full feature on YT!

[@AuntieMamie]

Those were the days of sophisticated film. So fabulous. And then came Hays. Actually, I stand corrected. Hays came first. Maybe he did us a favor with his bizarre mentality.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

When one protests too much....

[@familygonzcartwright]

Probablemente haya mucho uso de este zoom incluso con cámaras Nikon ya que la bayoneta Z permite adaptarlos sin problemas de electrónica y manteniendo resultados brillantes que no varian con los obtenibles con la cámara Sony.

[@murraypassarieu9115]

Cool stuff. Love Grant and Hepburn but for me His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell blows away any other comedy Cary ever did.

[@oldoddjobs]

Bringing Up Baby not a patch on His Girl Friday

[@lemmykilmister873]

🙂👍🏻

[@elijahrose2144]

🔥 hot pursuit of life

[@robertkelley3256]

These films release endorphins which are much better for ome''s health than zombies or the Saw serie.before the coming apocalypse!!

[@MAFion]

Moonlighting.

[@VincentPaterno-hs2fv]

I'll take Lombard and Powell over Hepburn and Grant any day of the week.

[@InTecknicolour]

my man godfrey is one of the best.

[@annaross1681]

Apples and oranges

[@LaRafa7]

I wish TCM would stop referencing modern movies in these reviews, if I wanted to watch Garden State I would be on HBO Max not TCM.

[@jimrhodes8261]

Their point was to show how the influence of these classic still continues even through today. It’s a valid point and a standard reporting technique in all fields.

[@sandradawson4390]

Scram Svengali lmao

[@moriahjacobs6131]

Hated it! But watching so called rich people act stupid and fall in love was the rave in the 1930s since It Happened One Night.

[@January.]

Unfortunately narrated in dumbed down English.

[@gparty997]

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