Screwball comedies, such as produced by Frank Capra, exhibited a pleasing, idealized climate that portrayed reassuring social values and a certain optimism about everyday life.

Screwball comedies often depict social classes in conflict, as in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and My Man Godfrey ( 1936 ).

* Screwball Comics: The First Nemo Annual ( 1985 ) Fantagraphics ( an anthology of vintage comics also featuring Rube Goldberg, Milt Gross and Dr. Seuss )

Screwball Scramble ( also known as " Snafu: The Maze Game Thats Runs You Ragged " and " Run Yourself Ragged ") is a toy made by TOMY that involves guiding a 1 centimeter metal ball bearing around an obstacle course.

They also animated Two Stupid Dogs and Screwball Squirrel ( part of the Droopy: Master Detective series for Fox Kids in 1993 ).

The Tex Avery originals have been frequently seen on Turner Broadcasting System-run networks such as the Cartoon Network and Boomerang ( Turner, now a subsidiary of Time-Warner, has owned the rights to Screwball Squirrel since founder Ted Turner bought the MGM / UA film library in 1986 ).

Screwball " Screwy " Squirrel is a cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, generally considered the wackiest of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s, which included Warner Bros .' s Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Disney's Aracuan Bird, and Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker.

Gable and Lombard were titled " The King of Hollywood and the Queen of Screwball Comedy ", respectively, and eloped during a break in production on Gable's Gone with the Wind in 1939.

The 45rpm single was released on Screwball Records, during the Fernandomania craze in 1981.

Screwball comedy has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres.

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* I Was a Male War Bride, Screwball comedy film featuring Cary Grant as a male war bride.

In his 2008 production of the classic Beaumarchais comedy The Marriage of Figaro, author William James Royce trimmed the five-act play down to three acts and labeled it a " Classic Screwball Comedy.

* Screwball Comedy: Defining a Film Genre, Wes D. Gehring, 1983.

Other noted artists associated with Queensbridge include Blaq Poet, Prodigy and Havoc of Mobb Deep, Cormega, Tragedy Khadafi, Nature, Screwball, DJ M-dot-Rockwell, Capone of Capone-N-Noreaga and Big Noyd.

She eventually is able to stop the organization that killed her father, and in the intervening time she fought Ana Kravinoff, the new Hobgoblin, and Screwball.

His other well-known roles include Felix the Cat, Screwball Squirrel, Doctor Doom, Dripple Dog, Cavey Jr., T-Bone, Jammett, Cow and Chicken, the Red Guy, I. R.

* Screwball Squirrel at the Big Cartoon DataBase.

The rest of the half-hour program mostly was taken up by Screwball Squirrel, another Tex Avery creation from the 1940s.

Meanwhile, Poet had gone on, eventually rechristening himself as " Blaq Poet ", later went on to be a part of the groups PHD ( Poet + DJ Hot Day ), and Screwball ; and some of the records released over the years, took numerous pot shots at KRS.

It was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote comedies.

Although most of Chaplin's films are characterised as comedies, most of them also employ strong elements of drama and even tragedy.

Some scholars, such as Constance B. Kuriyama, have also identified more serious underlying themes, such as greed ( The Gold Rush ) or loss ( The Kid ), in Chaplin's comedies.

But serious black comedies ( also known as dramatic comedies or dramedies ) were performing also well, such as The Weather Man, Broken Flowers and Shopgirl.

However, famous local actors can also be hired to perform the dubbing, particularly for comedies and animated movies, as their names are supposed to attract moviegoers, and the entire Hollywood cast may be dubbed by a local cast of similar notoriety.

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

The Italian director-producer Mario Zampi also made a number of successful black comedies, including Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Naked Truth ( 1957 ) and Too Many Crooks ( 1958 ).

He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.

He was also the best-selling writer of 16 novels, comedies and non-fiction books.

He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry.

He also composed some comedies, one of which alone is extant.

Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies.

Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies.

Some comic plays are also described as screwball comedies.

The screwball comedy has close links with the theatrical genre of farce, and some comic plays are also described as screwball comedies.

This stylistic device did not originate in the screwballs ( although it may be argued to have reached its zenith there ): it can also be found in many of the old Hollywood cycles including the gangster film, romantic comedies, and others.

The mediaeval playwright Hroswitha of Gandersheim claims to have written her plays so that learned men had a Christian alternative to reading the pagan plays of Terence, while the reformer Martin Luther not only quoted Terence frequently to tap into his insights into all things human but also recommended his comedies for the instruction of children in school.

The company performed mostly light comedies, but they also staged plays by Beaumarchais and worked with famous directors like Luchino Visconti.

Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed drama films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Days of Wine and Roses.