<P> One subgenre of screwball is known as the comedy of remarriage, in which characters divorce and then remarry one another (The Awful Truth (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940)). Some scholars point to this frequent device as evidence of the shift in the American moral code, as it showed freer attitudes toward divorce (though the divorce always turns out to have been a mistake). </P> <P> 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). In Christmas in Connecticut (1945), the action moves to Connecticut and remains there for the duration of the film . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Front Page (1931) (remade as His Girl Friday), directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien </Li> <Li> It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert </Li> <Li> Twentieth Century (1934), directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard </Li> <Li> My Man Godfrey (1936), directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard </Li> <Li> The Awful Truth (1937), directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant </Li> <Li> Nothing Sacred (1937), directed by William A. Wellman, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March </Li> <Li> Bringing Up Baby (1938), directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant </Li> <Li> His Girl Friday (1940), directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell </Li> <Li> The Lady Eve (1941), directed by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda </Li> <Li> The Palm Beach Story (1942), directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea </Li> <Li> The More the Merrier (1943), directed by George Stevens, starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Front Page (1931) (remade as His Girl Friday), directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien </Li>

Romantic comedies of the 1940s such as bringing up baby it happened one night and his girl friday