Comedic

Time off work and the complete lack of anything worth watching on TV resulted in four old movies providing me with varying degrees of entertainment in the last week.
"Mr Deeds Goes To Town" (1936) is the story of a naive small-town musician (Gary Cooper) who inherits a fortune, goes to the big city and is taken advantage of and made a laughing stock by the city slickers. All ends well of course. Loved Jean Arthur ( a very underrated actress in my opinion) as the jaded reporter who falls for Mr Longfellow Deeds. Very enjoyable.

"Topper"(1937) with Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as two mischievous

ghosts who must do a good deed before they can "move on". Slightly disappointed in this. It depended a lot on physical comedy and what I can only assume were state of the art special effects back in 1937. On occasion, I could see the "invisible" strings attached to various objects the ghosts were moving around.

 "Nothing Sacred"(1937) is the first movie I've watched so far in glorious technicolour! This movie was a delight from beginning to end. Carole Lombard simply adorable as the girl allegedly dying of radium poisoning who is taken to New York and treated like a superstar. Fredric March as the reporter (of course, there's always a reporter in these screwball comedies) was also wonderful. Plenty of laughs throughout.

"Bringing Up Baby"(1938) is probably the most well known screwball comedy of this period. Katharine Hepburn as the daffy (and very irritating) rich girl and Cary Grant as the long-suffering paleontologist she attempts to "help" were both very good in their roles. I have watched this movie within the last couple of years because C wanted to watch it. I can never quite pinpoint why I don't like it as much as I should.

Katharine Hepburn with "Baby" the leopard.