screwball comedy film

C10286
concept

A screwball comedy film is a fast-paced, witty romantic comedy characterized by eccentric characters, rapid-fire dialogue, and farcical situations that often subvert traditional gender roles and social norms.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
screwball comedy film canonical 53
American comedy film series 12
American film comedy 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: screwball comedy film
Generated description
A screwball comedy film is a fast-paced, witty romantic comedy characterized by eccentric characters, rapid-fire dialogue, and farcical situations that often subvert traditional gender roles and social norms.

Instances (68)

Instance Via concept surface
Merrily We Live —
Ball of Fire —
Midnight (1939 film)
linked to: Midnight
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It’s a Wonderful World —
Blondie (film series) American comedy film series
What's Up, Doc? —
The Bride Came C.O.D. —
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek —
What’s New Pussycat? —
Hold That Blonde —
Our Gang American comedy film series
Topper (film series) American comedy film series
The Mexican Spitfire American comedy film series
Nothing But the Truth (1941 film) —
The Whole Town’s Talking —
The Awful Truth —
The Amazing Mr. Williams —
Easy Living —
National Lampoon’s Vacation film series American comedy film series
The Lady Eve —
My Man Godfrey —
Bombshell (1933 film) —
Nothing Sacred —
The Hangover trilogy American comedy film series
Monkey Business
linked to: Mr. Oxley
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Room Service —
A Night at the Opera (1935) Marx Brothers film
Midnight (1939 film) —
Road to... film series American comedy film series
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau collaborations American comedy film series
The Palm Beach Story —
What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)
linked to: Saticoy Productions
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The Impostors —
Hail the Conquering Hero —
Twentieth Century (1934 film) —
Monkey Business —
Bombshell —
Ma and Pa Kettle film series American comedy film series
Ernest film series American comedy film series
Twentieth Century —
We're Not Dressing —
Theodora Goes Wild —
Libeled Lady —
My Favorite Wife —
Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen "Quirt and Flagg" film series American comedy film series
Topper (1937 film) —
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941 film)
linked to: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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Move Over, Darling —
It Happened One Night —
Who's That Girl
linked to: Who’s That Girl
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