One kind of 1930s comedy didn’t last very long or become a source of ongoing imitation. I’ll call it the comedy of merry insanity, which is different from the screwball comedies that dominated the second half of the decade and the first half of the 1940s. However nutty, screwball comedies revolve around reasonably recognizable issues [...]

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One kind of 1930s comedy didn’t last very long or become a source of ongoing imitation. I’ll call it the comedy of merry insanity, which is different from the screwball comedies that dominated the second half of the decade and the first half of the 1940s. However nutty, screwball comedies revolve around reasonably recognizable issues [...]

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