Twentieth Century (1934)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 19 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis:
In TWENTIETH CENTURY, Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), a temperamental Broadway producer with a history of success and an ego to match, turns his tyrannical energies on young starlet Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard). Before long she's renamed Lily Garland and has become the toast of the town,... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Etienne Girardot
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06/24/06 03:23 AM
Often credited as the first screwball comedy… an acerbic satire of show-business ego and superficiality.
02/11/06 03:41 AM
Classic screwball romance between overbearing Broadway producer and his gorgeous but empty headed protege
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07/27/05 02:36 PM
Funny, but it gets too repetitious in the last act and slowly crumbles into the relatively obscure minor work it has become today.
04/07/05 10:15 PM
Less a backstage farce than prototypical screwball, Howard Hawks’ brilliantly funny Twentieth Century set the stage for the subgenre that most consider the peak of American screen humor.
03/13/05 10:15 PM
Casually reverses and undermines its frumpy thesis by validating the effortlessly supple benefits of the seventh art.
02/26/05 09:24 AM
Hawks was gifted above all at this kind of fast-paced farce, and somehow made it work without the aid of padding or rest periods.
02/21/05 10:15 PM
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05/24/03 08:05 AM
There is many a witty remark in this harum-scarum adventure.
05/20/03 05:06 PM
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It was the first of Hawks’ three immortal screwball goldmines,
03/11/03 08:14 AM
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