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The 16 pages that link to Screwball comedy, each with the reason it gives.

• Romantic comedyCompared with: It intensifies romantic comedy through rapid dialogue, social reversal, and combative courtship.

• Frank CapraRelated: Its brisk comic rhythms shaped several of Capra’s 1930s films.

• Cary GrantRelated: Grant became one of its defining stars through performances that paired elegance with comic disorder.

• Ernst LubitschNarrower topic: Lubitsch’s comedies helped establish the witty, sexually charged mode later associated with the genre.

• Marx BrothersRelated: The brothers' rapid exchanges and unruly behavior overlapped with Hollywood's emerging comic style.

• Nora EphronRelated: Its rapid banter and mismatched couples echo the comic structure Ephron adapted for modern audiences.

• Tex AveryRelated: Avery’s cartoons adapted screwball energy to visual jokes and animated action.

• Jacques TatiCompared with: Its verbal speed contrasts with Tati’s restrained speech and jokes distributed across the image.

• It Happened One NightNarrower topic: The film helped establish conventions later associated with the genre.

• Leo McCareyNarrower topic: The Awful Truth is a prominent example of the genre McCarey helped shape.

• Anita LoosCompared with: Loos’s screen comedies anticipate some of its verbal play but predate the genre’s classic era.

• Preston SturgesNarrower topic: Sturges adapted its rapid banter and romantic combat into unusually dense comic plots.

• Carole LombardNarrower topic: Lombard became one of the genre’s defining performers through films such as My Man Godfrey.

• Irene DunneRelated: Several of Dunne’s best-known films made her a leading performer in this genre.

• Ben HechtRelated: Hecht’s comic screenplays helped shape the genre’s rapid dialogue and combative romance.

• Rosalind RussellNarrower topic: Her Hildy Johnson performance became a touchstone for the genre’s sharp, assertive heroines.