Golden age
Easy Living, Libeled Lady, Double Wedding and Bachelor Mother are fast, witty and full of misunderstandings.
Preston Sturges
Sullivan's Travels, Christmas in July and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock show the writer-director's sparkling style.
Fifties sparkle
It Should Happen to You, Designing Woman and Houseboat carry the tradition into colour.
The shelf
Open Screwball romances.
