You’ve got an old fashioned idea divorce is something that lasts forever, “til death do us part.” Why divorce doesn’t mean anything nowadays, Hildy, just a few words mumbled over you by a judge.
His Girl Friday (1940) dir. Howard Hawks
Screwball Comedy Heroines
Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night (1934)
Myrna Loy, The Thin Man (1934)
Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (1941)
Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday (1940)
Jean Arthur, The More The Merrier (1943)
Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey (1936)
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Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl (1941) dir. Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley