Just for the blanket falling to the floor at the end!

Love the hitchhiking scene.

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That and the scene immediately preceding it when Clark Gable lays claim to his forty-five dollars and 28 cents (or whatever the figure was) and when asked if he loves his daughter, he answers, "Yes, but don't hold that against me, I'm a bit screwy myself!" I love it!!

My older sister turned me on to that movie when I was a kid. Love it!

But it is hard to choose! The 30s were a great time for movies, weren't they?

Definitely the same dame!

I love The Lady Eve, it and Libeled Lady are not given their rightful due IMO.

And I totally agree that the mid-'30s to the late '40s saw more classic and entertaining movies made than any other period in the history of filmdom. (Although I must confess an almost equal love for movies of the '80s. Too many to mention, but it was an incredible decade for movies. Body Heat, The Princess Bride, Stand by Me, The Terminator, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Romancing the Stone. The list is endless. I didn't even scratch the surface!)

But, that earlier period still stands alone. Hell, 1939 alone saw more great movies made than have been made in most decades!

What a great movie. There is one line from it that I love to borrow, substituting one word, when the situation allows:

At a dinner party at the rich father's house, one woman says after the meal, "The fish was a poem." I don't know why but that one line struck me as so funny.

The 30's-'40s is my favorite era for movies too.

Vote out of the list offered: 'Bringing up Baby' - Cary Grant did screwball better than anyone, plus it has both a paleontologist and a leopard: seriously.

My 2 write-ins are my two favourite screwball comedies: 'His Girl Friday' and 'Arsenic & Old Lace'.

His Girl Friday has the most brilliant dialogue of classic comedy. It doesn't hurt that it has two of the greatest comedians at the top of their game. plus low-rent mafia-types, a kidnapped mother-in-law & it was directed by Howard Hawks. It is one of my two favourite films of all time. Cary and Rosalind are also my two favourite actors of classic Hollywood. Truly a master class in comedy.

Arsenic and Old Lace is the funniest film about insane serial killers ever made. This is the genius that occurs when family reunions go wonderfully wrong: a brother who believes he's Teddy Roosevelt, aunts who have a hobby of helping out older gentlemen with their elderberry wine made with arsenic, strychnine and just a pinch of cyanide and the other brother - the black sheep of the family who makes the others look down-right normal. It has a quote that I always use to describe my own relatives, "Insanity runs in my family, practically gallops!"

W.C. Fields: Any number of scenes from his movies were hilarious. "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man" & "The Bank Dick" were screwball terrific.

"Take the Money and Run", "Play It Again Sam", and "Annie Hall" by Woody Allen.

"The Pink Panther Strikes Again": The scene where Clouseau interrogates the staff is just one of several laugh til you cry scenes.