screwball summer

From the gumball bottom to the cherry on top, QFT is having a screwball summer. We are celebrating the fast-talking farce of the screwball comedy with a season guaranteed to tickle your funny bone.

Screwball Summer: His Girl Friday

One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable screwball comedies ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women.

05 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: My Man Godfrey

Carole Lombard and William Powell dazzle in this definitive screwball comedy by Gregory La Cava—a potent cocktail of romantic repartee and social critique.

06 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: The Philadelphia Story

A fast-talking screwball comedy as well as a tale of regret and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time.

13 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: Desperately Seeking Susan (35mm)

Get into the groove with this fusion of screwball comedy and skuzzy, downtown New York hipsterdom, from NYC-based indie auteur Susan Seidelman (Smithereens). Screening from 35mm.

14 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: Bringing Up Baby

Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity.

19 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: Raising Arizona

Described by Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) as "a living, breathing Looney Tunes cartoon", the frantic screwball comedy, Raisng Arizona, is still regarded as one of the Coen Brothers' best.

20 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: Sullivan's Travels

Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve) works his magic in a screwball tale of a film director who goes on the road as a tramp to help write his socially significant screenplay.

26 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: The Lady Eve

Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels) runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance.

27 July 2025

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Screwball Summer: The Awful Truth

In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce.

02 August 2025

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Screwball Summer: What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc? joyously recaptures the bubbly style of 1930s screwball comedies—and firmly establishes Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal as an iconic romantic duo.

03 August 2025

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