Twentieth Century (1934)

1h 31m
Running Time

May 11, 1934
Release Date

Twentieth Century (1934)

1h 31m
Running Time

May 11, 1934
Release Date

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Network & Production Companies
Columbia Pictures

Plot.

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

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Cast & Crew.

Earl Smith

Earl Smith

Light-Skinned Black Waiter (uncredited)

Irene Thompson

Irene Thompson

Stage Actress (uncredited)

Lillian West

Lillian West

Charwoman (uncredited)

Buddy Williams

Buddy Williams

Black Stage Actor (uncredited)

Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks

Director / Producer

Charles Bruce Millholland

Charles Bruce Millholland

Theatre Play

Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht

Screenplay

Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler

Screenplay

Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn

Executive Producer

Harold Dodds

Harold Dodds

Casting

Dan Kelly

Dan Kelly

Casting

Samuel J. Briskin

Samuel J. Briskin

Production Supervisor

Irving Lippman

Irving Lippman

Still Photographer

Marcel Grand

Marcel Grand

Assistant Camera

Bud Fraker

Bud Fraker

Still Photographer

Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson

Assistant Camera

Details.

Release Date
May 11, 1934

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 31m

Content Rating
NR

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

stage
theatre play
disguise
rehearsal
pre-code
protégé
ham
hysterics

Wiki.

Twentieth Century is a 1934 American pre-Code screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, and Roscoe Karns. Much of the film is set on the 20th Century Limited train as it travels from Chicago to New York City. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their 1932 Broadway play of the same name—itself based on the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles Bruce Millholland—with uncredited contributions from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges.

Along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, also released in 1934 (which coincidentally has the same music over the opening titles), Twentieth Century is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy. "Howard Hawks' rapid-fire romantic comedy established the essential ingredients of the screwball – a dizzy dame, a charming, but befuddled, hero, dazzling dialogue, and a dash of slapstick." Its success propelled Lombard into the front ranks of film comediennes. The film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.

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