Top 100 Classic US Screwball Comedies

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.

A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.

A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Sportswriter Sam Craig and columnist Tess Harding, with the same New York newspaper, overcome their initial antagonism, fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when he comes to resent her hectic lifestyle.

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

An escaped prisoner must prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with help from a spirited schoolteacher.

A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.

Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.