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  • The Cat and the Canary
    In Elliott Nugent

    …some to be the first screwball comedy. It was set during the Depression and centres on spoiled siblings who must find jobs after their mother loses the family fortune; it starred Claudette Colbert and Mary Boland. Nugent’s other early films include the melodrama If I Were Free (1933), with Irene…

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