Jan 19 Movie: Midnight. I have a weakness for screwball comedies starring Claudette Colbert, and this is one of the best. Colbert is a golddigger in Paris who somehow ends up posing as a Hungarian baroness, and evading cabdriver Don Ameche, with the help of John Barrymore. Mary Astor also costars, as well as a British guy who should have been Noel Coward but wasn't. Robert Osbourne said that Barrymore had a hard time with this production, even needing cue cards at times. That's sad, but cue cards or no he still brings the funny. The best scene of the movie is Barrymore pretending to be Colbert's sick daughter in Hungary, braying into the phone about alcohol poisoning. This, It Happened One Night and The Palm Beach Story are my favorite Colbert movies.
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Have you read John Kessel's novel Corrupting Dr. Nice? It's explicitly a screwball comedy--the plot is strongly derived from The Lady Eve, but with Abraham Lincoln and Simon Zealotes as major characters. If you haven't, drop me an e-mail.