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In 1934 Hawks went to Columbia Pictures to make his first screwball comedy, Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore and Hawks's distant cousin Carole Lombard.

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

In 1935 Hawks made Barbary Coast with Edward G. Robinson and Miriam Hopkins.

In 1936 he made the aviation adventure Ceiling Zero with James Cagney and Pat O ' Brien.

Also in 1936, Hawks began filming Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer and Walter Brennan.

But he was fired by Samuel Goldwyn in the middle of shooting and the film was completed by William Wyler.