Directed by Mark Robson • 1954 • United States
Starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson
After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina (Judy Holliday) and Robert Tracey (Jack Lemmon) goes “phffft!” Upon receiving their divorce papers, Nina and Robert are certain that they’ll remain friends, no matter how many new lovers they pick up along the way. Nina dallies briefly with the bombastic Charlie (Jack Carson), while Robert has a fling with the beautiful Janis (Kim Novak in an early breakout role). But old flames die hard, as Nina and Robert discover when they accidentally find themselves in a nightclub doing the mambo together.
Up Next in Columbia Screwball
-
You Can’t Take It With You
Directed by Frank Capra • 1938 • United States
Starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James StewartFrank Capra’s irresistible adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning stage hit by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart is perhaps the most bighearted and optimistic comedy from a filmmaker who speciali...
-
Good Neighbor Sam
Directed by David Swift • 1964 • United States
Starring Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy ProvineRomy Schneider shines in one of the very few films she made in Hollywood, an endearingly wacky farce that takes a classic screwball premise and gives it a gleaming 1960s Technicolor update. Happi...
-
The Awful Truth
Directed by Leo McCarey • 1937 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph BellamyIn this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each oth...