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Subgenre Sampler
Great Dictator, The (1940)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin - Chaplin's brave subversive satire in which he inhabits dual roles – dictator Adenoid Hynkle and a Jewish barber – for his damning…
Great McGinty, The (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest… - The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
His Girl Friday (1940)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy - Fast and furious comic masterpiece with Cary Grant in superb form as a conniving newspaper editor whose ex–wife happens to be his star…
It All Came True (1940)- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart - A crime–themed musical comedy featuring Ann Sheridan as a fledgling singer in her first starring role as well as Humphrey Bogart as a fugitive…
Let George Do It! (1940)- Dir. Marcel Varnel
Feat. George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh - Ealing Studios comedy sees George Formby star as a ukulele player who unwittingly takes the wrong boat and finds himself mistaken for a British…
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, George Murphy - Filmed version of the hit Broadway musical comedy from 1922 about Irish–American immigrants starring Judy Garland, who was fresh to…
My Favourite Wife (1940)- Dir. Garson Kanin
Feat. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott - Witty marital mixup comedy with the seven–years–shipwrecked Irene Dunne returning home to discover husband Cary Grant about to embark on…
My Little Chickadee (1940)- Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. Mae West, W.C. Fields - Mae West and W.C. Fields profitably co–exist in this formula story of marital shenanigans in the Wild West, garlanded with lunatic gags, dirty…
Philadelphia Story, The (1940)- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart - A second marriage for a stuffy heiress is threatened by scandal. A witty, sparkling romantic farce with golden trio – Katharine Hepburn, Cary…
Remember the Night (1940)- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi… - Preston Sturges scripted this forgotten yuletide gem, about an assistant D.A. (MacMurray) who, feeling sorry for a glamorous jewel thief (Stanwyck),…
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