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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funny movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies, totalling 500 films, were nominated for the distinction; genres included slapstick, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of errors.
City comedies depict London as a hotbed of vice and folly; in particular, Jonson's Epicoene, Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, and Marston's The Dutch Courtesan. Verna Foster has argued that John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (c. 1629–1633) re-works many of the features of city comedy within a tragic ...
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie Kyle Balda Hugh Jackman , Emma Thompson , Nicholas Braun , Nicholas Galitzine , Molly Gordon , Hong Chau , Tosin Cole , Kobna Holdbrook-Smith , Conleth Hill , Mandeep Dhillon
Advertisement for Harold Lloyd Comedies (1919) These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. Most of these films are known to survive in Lloyd's personal archive collection and in various film archives around the world. Some ...
Colortone Musical (1929–1935) - 17 one and two reel musicals in Technicolor, utilizing the full rainbow process from mid-1934. Colortone Revue (1929–1930) – 5 black and white (but sepia tone released) comedies, two with Jack Benny. Crime Does Not Pay (1935–1946) - 49 two-reel dramatic shorts
The Ealing comedies is an informal name for a series of comedy films produced by the London-based Ealing Studios during a ten-year period from 1947 to 1957. Often considered to reflect Britain's post-war spirit, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the most celebrated films in the sequence include Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Whisky Galore!
Together they appeared in 34 silent shorts, A 45 sound shorts, and 27 full-length sound feature films. B In addition to these, Laurel and Hardy appeared in at least 20 foreign-language versions of their films and a promotional film, Galaxy of Stars (1936), produced for European film distributors. [2]
Many of these women emerged in Egypt and marked their place in history. Bahiga Hafez in Zaynab (1930) Fatima Rushdi on the cover of Al-Kawakib magazine, September 1932. The 1927 film Laila was the first Egyptian feature-length film, produced by and starring Aziza Amir, one of the pioneers of the Egyptian film industry.