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Hollywood Classic Rom Coms

by olympiasg • Created 3 years ago • Modified 9 months ago
1930's- 1950s
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  • Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

    1. It Happened One Night

    19341h 45mApproved87Metascore
    8.1 (117K)
    A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter Connolly
  • Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment (1960)

    2. The Apartment

    19602h 5mApproved94Metascore
    8.3 (209K)
    A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurray
  • Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

    3. The Philadelphia Story

    19401h 52mApproved96Metascore
    7.8 (76K)
    After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames Stewart
  • Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)

    4. Bringing Up Baby

    19381h 42mApproved91Metascore
    7.8 (68K)
    While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantCharles Ruggles
  • Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    5. The Lady Vanishes

    19381h 36mApproved98Metascore
    7.7 (60K)
    While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMargaret LockwoodMichael RedgravePaul Lukas
  • Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941)

    6. The Lady Eve

    19411h 34mApproved96Metascore
    7.7 (25K)
    A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
    DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles Coburn
  • Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday (1940)

    7. His Girl Friday

    19401h 32mApproved
    7.8 (66K)
    When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantRosalind RussellRalph Bellamy
  • Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Adam's Rib (1949)

    8. Adam's Rib

    19491h 41mApproved87Metascore
    7.4 (24K)
    Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnJudy Holliday
  • Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, and Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk (1959)

    9. Pillow Talk

    19591h 42mApproved73Metascore
    7.4 (20K)
    An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.
    DirectorMichael GordonStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony Randall
  • Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)

    10. Charade

    19631h 53mApproved83Metascore
    7.8 (90K)
    Romance and intrigue ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her.
    DirectorStanley DonenStarsCary GrantAudrey HepburnWalter Matthau
  • Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)

    11. Notorious

    19461h 42mApproved100Metascore
    7.9 (111K)
    The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantIngrid BergmanClaude Rains
  • Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Holiday (1938)

    12. Holiday

    19381h 35mApproved
    7.7 (19K)
    A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantDoris Nolan
  • Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Woman of the Year (1942)

    13. Woman of the Year

    19421h 54mApproved74Metascore
    7.1 (11K)
    Sportswriter Sam Craig and columnist Tess Harding, with the same New York newspaper, overcome their initial antagonism, fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when he comes to resent her hectic lifestyle.
    DirectorGeorge StevensStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnFay Bainter
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    14. The Awful Truth

    19371h 30mApproved87Metascore
    7.7 (22K)
    A married couple files an amicable divorce, but find letting go of each other harder than they originally thought.
    DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCary GrantRalph Bellamy
  • Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, and William Powell in Libeled Lady (1936)

    15. Libeled Lady

    19361h 38mApproved
    7.8 (9.4K)
    When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
    DirectorJack ConwayStarsJean HarlowWilliam PowellMyrna Loy
  • Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    16. Arsenic and Old Lace

    19441h 58mApproved
    7.9 (77K)
    Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsCary GrantPriscilla LaneRaymond Massey
  • Carole Lombard and William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)

    17. My Man Godfrey

    19361h 34mApproved82Metascore
    7.9 (28K)
    A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
    DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice Brady
  • Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi in Summertime (1955)

    18. Summertime

    19551h 40mApproved
    7.1 (11K)
    An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsKatharine HepburnRossano BrazziIsa Miranda
  • Jean Arthur, Ray Milland, and Edward Arnold in Easy Living (1937)

    19. Easy Living

    19371h 28mApproved
    7.5 (4.4K)
    When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
    DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJean ArthurEdward ArnoldRay Milland
  • Love in the Afternoon (1957)

    20. Love in the Afternoon

    19572h 10mApproved73Metascore
    7.1 (18K)
    A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsGary CooperAudrey HepburnMaurice Chevalier
  • Carole Lombard and Fredric March in Nothing Sacred (1937)

    21. Nothing Sacred

    19371h 17mApproved78Metascore
    6.8 (7.5K)
    An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
    DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsCarole LombardFredric MarchCharles Winninger
  • Design for Living (1933)

    22. Design for Living

    19331h 31mPassed
    7.4 (8.2K)
    A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsFredric MarchGary CooperMiriam Hopkins
  • Designing Woman (1957)

    23. Designing Woman

    19571h 58mApproved
    6.7 (5.9K)
    A sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.
    DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGregory PeckLauren BacallDolores Gray
  • Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941)

    24. Ball of Fire

    19411h 51mApproved78Metascore
    7.7 (15K)
    A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar Homolka
  • Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Desk Set (1957)

    25. Desk Set

    19571h 43mApproved
    7.2 (10K)
    Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a television network's research department.
    DirectorWalter LangStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnGig Young

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