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Phffft is a great movie, and it's still on my potential list.

I'm a big fan of both Judy Holiday and Jack Lemmon, so I always love watching their movies. (I wish Judy Holiday had made more movies.)

Bells Are Ringing, The Solid Gold Cadillac, and It Should Happen to You are some of my favorites of her movies.

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Thanks Captain I'd like to see Revenge of the Nerds again. I seen it one time only back when it first came out on VHS. I remember liking it but that's all I can remember. BTW if you were a nerd in school did you ever get your own revenge???

I've not seen Scoop. But I really liked Radio Days, now that was funny to me (and I don't think Woody appeared in that one). Purple Rose of Cairo and Midnight in Paris are both favorites of mine but like you said I don't think of them as comedies.

I think my wife is the same way and that's why I haven't watched too many films like Porky's or some of the others that were recommended in this thread.

Thanks for the recs! I seen The Solid Gold Cadillac a few weeks ago, good movie but strange title! I seen The Marrying Kind awhile back, I didn't really find it funny as the characters seemed more adversarial than humorous. Think I'll watch
Bells Are Ringing next as it has Dean Martin.

This was a real comedy gem and I liked it so much that I had a real hard time finding just one image for this review! The Christmas party scene was probably my favorite part but there was a lot to like here.

Katherine Hepburn is so good that it felt like she was made for this role, she's just so natural. She had great chemistry with.....Joan Blondell...I bet you thought I was going to say Spencer Tracy! Yeah, Tracy & Hepburn scenes worked well together but with such a dynamic actress you need someone who has the same drive and energy and that someone was Joan Blondell. I loved the scenes the four women shared together in their reference finding center. I sensed a real bonding and familiarity among these co-workers. I love that set in the reference room, it's simple, yet three dimensional. One gets the feeling you could get lost in that upper level with it's endless rows of reference books and aisles that go on forever.

It was neat seeing Sue Randall aka Miss Landers from Leave it to Beaver in her one and only film. She was good and personable. I was bummed that the lovely Dina Merrill had next to no scene time and no close ups...but this was her first film, maybe that's why. Dina reminds me of Grace Kelley, only taller, she's very classy and holds herself well. I bet she worked as a model.

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I caught a little of this movie this evening on TCM!
I never saw the whole thing but parts of it are weirdly prophetic (or ironic) regarding technology.
One line from Hepburn to Tracy went something like... "unless you've figured out a way to send mail without the post office."

Then to think e-mail was one of the first inter-office & home computer applications!

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I think Bells Are Ringing is a lot of fun. It's a very underrated movie.

Desk Set is one of my favorite Tracy & Hepburn movies. I love the scene when they all get pink slips.



If you haven't seen it, check out the movie Woman's World (1954).
"An executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives."

I haven't checked the quality of the video, but it's on YouTube:

Thanks...I seen it but long ago, so due for that rewatch.

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Fonda was the "straight man"!

The scene that steals the movie is when Henry's Fonda's sons get Lucy drunk at their first meeting - and when she puts the mashed potatoes in that little girl's lap (and starts laughing & crying hysterically)... that was one of the only times Lucy ever really made me LOL!

Yup that was a good scene. While I was watching it and Lucy turned on a dime form crying to laughing I thought to myself, 'now that's comic genius'. I don't think very many actors could pull that scene off like she did.

Oh, of course I know Fonda was the straight man hence he wasn't meant to be funny, but he was dull. Van Johnson should've been cast as the widower with 8 kids...Van would've been great, at least he was in the movie.

Two more Woody Allen films I watched:

This title is absolute cult.
Film-monument to the dying part of an epoch. A work full of sadness. I would consider it for some drama countdown.

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If you like It Happened One Night (1934), check out the movie Love on the Run (1936). It's a similar "runaway bride" type of movie, and it also stars Clark Gable.

It Happened One Night is the better of the two movies, but Love on the Run is also worth watching.

Thank you! I just watched Woman's World (1954) last night and both me and the wife enjoyed the movie. We had seen it before but I didn't remember that it was so intelligently well written and so well cast too. The only other film like this that didn't already mention is Lucy Gallant (1955).

I watched Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? today. I had never heard of this movie before, but I went searching for it after you mentioned it here. It's a shame that this movie isn't better known because I thought it was a lot of fun. I don't usually like Robert Morse, but I liked him in this movie, even though his character wasn't really a good person.

The only thing that bothered me about it was

Glad to hear you liked it. The funny thing is I can't remember now who Doris ended up with All I remember of the ending was the money part...fun movie though. I hope you seen a better copy of the film than I did? You probably watched it on TCM?

No, it wasn't on TCM. I found it online, so it was also a low quality copy, but at least it was watchable.

I've had fun with this thread! Thanks to everyone who gave me comedy recommendations...I wish I could've watched them all. As it was I found some great comedies all thanks to you guys! I've sent in my ballot, so I guess it's time to wrap up this thread with a few comedies that I watched last week but didn't post about. Thanks everyone for stopping by and chatting with me I really appreciate it!