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    • I have a soft spot for Libeled Lady too, but I haven’t seen Manhattan Melodrama yet. I know they’re different films, but I clearly need to watch it if you’d reference it and I Love You Again together! So true. Sturges was so talented and so funny.

  1. Sarah

    Love this list! “Arsenic and Old Lace” is the only one I’ve seen. “I Love You Again” sounds hilarious.

    • I LOVE Midnight. Barrymore on the phone with that dressing on the iceskate, was it? Gets me every time. One of my early posts was on party crashing, Claudette Colbert style (based on Midnight). She’s so riveting in that movie. Also love when she thinks it’s not real and then gets defensive about her age (with herself). So good.

  2. carolmcl

    Two movies I saw for the first time in the last year Fit this bill:

    “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife” with Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. He’s a millionaire, Claudette is not. They meet in a store…so much more. Whacky amusing stuff.

    And “The More the Merrier.” Jean Arthur has an apartment with an extra room. There’s a housing shortage in WWII D.C., where she lives, so she does her patriotic duty and advertises for a roommate. Only she forgets to say ‘female’ only, and ends up having to rent to a man…who then sublets 1/2 his room to another man! The scene where they all get ready one morning where she’s not aware there’s a second man in the apartment is very funny!

    • I love The More, The Merrier! That’s a perfect choice for a silly plot movie that’s just about perfect! You’re right–the getting-ready scene is brilliant. I haven’t even heard of Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife! And anything Colbert is something I want to see. Thank you for the recommendation.

  3. This could go on forever…but if someone discovers a new film they weren’t aware of then it’s all good. That being said “Trouble in Paradise” with Herbert Marshall & Miriam Hopkins but most of all from that other wonderful director Ernst Lubitsch.

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