Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).

In his book Still Me, Reeve says he based his interpretation of Clark Kent on Cary Grant's nerdy character in Bringing Up Baby.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) was listed number 97 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies.

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )

Sometimes screwball comedies feature male characters cross-dressing, further contributing to the misunderstandings ( Bringing Up Baby, I Was a Male War Bride, Some Like It Hot ).

Often this mismatch comes about because the man is much further down the economic scale than the woman ( Bringing Up Baby, Holiday ).

In Bringing Up Baby we find a rare statement on that, when the leading woman says, once speaking to someone other than her future husband: " He's the man I ’ m going to marry, he doesn ’ t know it, but I am.

Screwball comedies also tend to contain ridiculous, farcical situations, such as in Bringing Up Baby, in which a couple must take care of a pet leopard during much of the film.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell has noted that many classic screwball comedies turn on an interlude in the state of Connecticut ( Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth ).

* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), d. Howard Hawks

( 1972 ), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O ' Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) and His Girl Friday ( 1940 ).

* Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In April 1937 he had read a short story by Hagar Wilde in Collier's magazine called Bringing Up Baby and immediately wanted to make a film out of it.

In total Bringing Up Baby was 40 days over schedule and $ 330, 000 over budget.

On its first run Bringing Up Baby made $ 715, 000 in the U. S. and $ 394, 000 in foreign markets, with a total of $ 1, 109, 000.

When he sold the company he kept the copyrights to six films, including Bringing Up Baby.

Since its release, the popularity of Bringing Up Baby has grown considerably, beginning with it being shown on TV in the 1950s.

In 1972 Peter Bogdanovich partially re-made the film as What's Up, Doc ?, which contributed to Bringing Up Babys growing reputation.

The film features McCay with several of his cartoonist friends, such as George McManus ( creator of Bringing Up Father ), Roy McCardell, and Thomas A. Dorgan.

A Fortune popularity poll in 1937 indicated Little Orphan Annie ranked number one and ahead of Popeye, Dick Tracy, Bringing Up Father, The Gumps, Blondie, Moon Mullins, Joe Palooka, Li ' l Abner and Tillie the Toiler.

In the 1930s was running in only 35 newspapers, while its contemporaries such as Bringing Up Father were reportedly running in up to a thousand.

She appeared again with Moran in Bringing Up Father, another film written by Marion.

That's when he got the notion that some of his ideas were being slipped to fellow cartoonist George McManus ( creator of Bringing Up Father ).

* Bringing up Father ( 1946 )-composer ( Music Score ), director

* Bringing Up Father ( 1916-1917 ): directed by Gregory La Cava ; animated by Frank Moser, Bert Green, Edward Grinham, Grim Natwick ; screenwritten by Louis De Lorme

These American comics included George McManus ' Bringing up Father, George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Rudolph Dirks's Katzenjammer Kids.

Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips of the day, like " Blondie ", " Barney Google ", " Moon Mullins ", " Popeye ", " Tillie the Toiler ", " Dick Tracy ", " Little Orphan Annie ", " Bringing Up Father ", " Dixie Dugan ", and " Mutt and Jeff ".

Bringing Up Father was an influential American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus ( 1884 – 1954 ).

Her lofty goal — frustrated in nearly every strip — is to bring father ( the lowbrow Jiggs ) " up " to upper class standards, hence the title, Bringing Up Father.

The occasional malapropisms and left-footed social blunders of these upward mobiles were gleefully lampooned in vaudeville, popular song, and formed the basis for Bringing Up Father.

: On January 12, 1913, he debuted Bringing Up Father, about an Irishman named Jiggs, who doesn't understand why his ascension to wealth via the Irish Sweepstakes means he can't hang out with his friends, and his nagging, social-climbing wife, Maggie.

The strip was an instant hit, possibly because of its combination of an appealing cast of characters with a unique look of art-nouveau splendor ... Before McManus died, in 1954, Bringing Up Father made him two fortunes ( the first was lost in the 1929 stock market crash ).

In 1913, Rosie's Beau was McManus ' Sunday page, and he later revived it as a Sunday topper strip above Bringing Up Father.

On April 17, 1938, an absent-minded character in Rosie's Beau realized he was in the wrong place and climbed down into the first panel of Bringing Up Father, arriving in the living room of Maggie and Jiggs.

In 1941, McManus replaced Rosie's Beau with Snookums ( itself a revival of a 1900's McManus strip, The Newlyweds, now focused on their son, the titular character ) which ran as the topper above Bringing Up Father until 1956.

The strip's popularity faded, and Bringing Up Father limped along until its 87-year run came to a close on May 28, 2000.

Bringing Up Father went digital in 2007 when King Features made the strip available as one of the selections in its DailyINK email package.

Gus Hill's production of Bringing Up Father opened on Broadway in 1914, with music composed by Frank H. Grey, lyrics by Elven E. Hedges, libretto by John P. Mulgrew and Thomas Swift, choreography by Edward Hutchinson, and directed by Frank Tannehill, Jr. Hill produced many more theatrical versions of the strip that toured the country, including Bringing Up Father in Florida, Bringing Up Father on Broadway, Bringing Up Father in Ireland, Bringing Up Father Abroad, and Bringing Up Father in Wall Street.