Each movie’s starring actors were obtained from IMDb.
Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and satirical commentary about American society like “The Graduate.”Ĭomedy has become a bit randier in more recent times, with R-rated films such as “There’s Something About Mary.” But Americans will always make time for a good rom-com - for instance, “Groundhog Day”.Ģ4/7 Tempo reviewed The 100 Funniest American Movies Of All Time, curated by the American Film Institute, a non-profit. Filmmakers became bolder in the 1960s, making black comedies like the Cold War parody “Dr.
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The 1930s also produced wonderfully chaotic Marx Brothers farces like “Duck Soup” and “A Night at the Opera” and introduced the urbane humor of the “Thin Man” series that starred William Powell and Myrna Loy.ĭirector Billy Wilder pushed the boundaries of comedy on the big screen in 1959 with his cross-dressing romp “Some Like it Hot,” starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Films such as “His Girl Friday,” “Bringing up Baby” and “The Philadelphia Story” helped make stars out of Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart. Screwball comedies, popular during the Great Depression, featured farcical situations and fast-paced dialogue. The advent of talking pictures allowed directors such as Frank Capra and Howard Hawks and writers like Garson Kanin to create memorable banter and repartee. Some are from the 1920s, and others from the 1980s. The AFI list begs the question of whether films from one era should be compared with another. The genre is so important that the American Film Institute has its own list of best comedies–“AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 LAUGHS the 100 funniest american movies of all time.” “Some Like It Hot” was released in 1959 and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon tops their list. Early screen stars included Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Harold Lloyd, and at the top of the list genius Charlie Chaplin. Among the most famous early American films were comedies.
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