Screwball comedies were made for only a short time, relatively speaking, in the history of American film. They flourished under the Great Depression and went into their final phase just as the United States entered World War II. Using social and sexual role inversion, screwball comedy commented on life during the Depression. The rich can be quirky yet still hold the capability to be “regular people”; wealth and true love is attainable by the very …showed first 75 words of 1132 total…

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