What Happens When Upwardly Mobile Couple Hits Hard Times
Published: Aug 19, 2009
The 1930s were a heyday for screwball comedies, rowdy pictures where complications were piled onto complications, until the characters reached their breaking point, crazy stuff happened, hilarity ensued and moviegoers went home happy. In the Great Depression, filmmakers used broad comedy to touch on issues of class and poverty, but kept audiences enthralled with plenty of slapstick that always found some upper crust heel choking on their silver spoon. [Read more…]
--Posted by Patrick J. Sauer, RecessionWire.com
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