Icons of screwball comedy. Volume one.
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Chodorov, Jerome -- Filmadaptations.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Fields, Joseph A., -- 1895-1966 -- Filmadaptations.
Film adaptations.
Impulse -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Drama.
Married women -- United States -- Drama.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- (William Somerset), -- 1874-1965 -- Filmadaptations.
Millionaires -- United States -- Drama.
Polygamy -- United States -- Drama.
Romantic comedy films.
Screwball comedy films.
Short films.
Sisters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Women cooks -- United States -- Drama.
Women psychiatrists -- United States -- Drama.

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Published
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 336 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
1435952928, 9781435952928
UPC
043396293892

Notes

General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Too many husbands is based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham.
General Note
My sister Eileen is based upon the play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; adapted from the stories by Ruth McKenney and produced on the stage by Max Gordon.
General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1935-1945.
General Note
Special features: Disc 1: 1946 short film "Ain't love cuckoo;" original theatrical trailers. Disc 2: Original theatrical trailers.
Participants/Performers
If you could only cook cast: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo.
Participants/Performers
Too many husbands cast: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Melville Cooper.
Participants/Performers
My sister Eileen cast: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn.
Participants/Performers
She wouldn't say yes cast: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger.
Description
Disc 1: If you could only cook: A down-on-her-luck cook charms a millionaire into playing along as her husband so they can get work. Too many husbands: A woman finds herself legally wed to two men.
Description
Disc 2: My sister Eileen: A writer, who has a pretty, younger sister, brings a host of eccentrics through their Greenwich Village apartment. She wouldn't say yes: A button-down psychiatrist battles her patient's impulses while suppressing her own.
Target Audience
Not rated.
System Details
DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
These DVD discs are copy protected.
Language
In English with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.
Local note
DVD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Seiter, W. A., Green, H. J., Purcell, G., Arthur, J., Marshall, H., Carrillo, L., Ruggles, W., Binyon, C., MacMurray, F., Douglas, M., Davenport, H., Peterson, D., Cooper, M., Gordon, M., Hall, A., Fields, J. A., Chodorov, J., Russell, R., Aherne, B., Blair, J., Tobias, G., Van Upp, V., Jacoby, J., Tobias, S., Joslyn, A., Bowman, L., Jergens, A., Winninger, C., Maugham, W. S. 1., Fields, J. A., & Chodorov, J. (2009). Icons of screwball comedy (2 disc set.). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

William A. Seiter et al.. 2009. Icons of Screwball Comedy. Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

William A. Seiter et al.. Icons of Screwball Comedy Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2009.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Seiter, W. A., Green, H. J., Purcell, G., Arthur, J., Marshall, H., Carrillo, L. and Ruggles, W. et al (2009). Icons of screwball comedy. 2 disc set. Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Seiter, William A., et al. Icons of Screwball Comedy 2 disc set., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2009.

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