Her humor, her style, her luminous beauty — film buffs idolize Carole Lombard and her screwball comedies from Tinseltown’s heyday. They also remember Lombard’s storybook marriage to Clark Gable, and ...

Press Play with Madeleine Brand ‘Gigantic Mess,’ ‘Man in Crisis’: A history of rom-coms we love A new book explores the history of romantic comedies. The genre is as old as Shakespeare, but the modern ...

The screwball comedy genre is innately pastiche, which explains why we love them and why they'll never make a comeback in their original form. After all, we're lucky enough to have a studio comedy, ...