Hollywood’s Classic Comedies featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour or Screwball Fun! (Hollywood Classics)

HOLLYWOOD'S CLASSIC COMEDIES, is a treat for movie lovers and collectors. It features slapstick, romance, music, glamour and screwball fun with a massive 200 entries. Wonderful cover as well with a full color lobby card reproduction of HOLD THAT GHOST. The reviews read like a who's who in the field of comedy films. In addition, there's a listing of 50 Must-See Highlights of Movie Comedy. Some of the films covered include Adam's Rib, And Baby Makes Three, Belles of St Trinian's, Bringing Up Baby, Designing Woman, The Egg and I, The Paleface, The Philadelphia Story. Raffles (all three versions), Slightly Dangerous, The Titfield Thunderbold, Woman of the Year, and many, many more to delight the reader. Series films include Abbott and Costello, Bulldog Drummond, Blondie, Charlie Chaplin and Dad Rudd. As is usual in John Howard Reid's books, the author goes into much detail about the cast, the technicians, and release dates in America, England and Australia. And his own comments are always balanced with the views of other critics. This must-have book is nicely presented and will provide the movie enthusiast with a wealth of information that cannot be found in any other publication. [Reviewed by Ross Adams in "Dress Circle", the Movie Enthusiasts and Collectors' Magazine].