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1. • • A comedy of remarriage is a subgenre of romantic comedy that became prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s. It’s characterized by plots where a couple divorces, flirts with outsiders, and then rekindles their romance. Films like The Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday are prime examples.
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   The comedy of remarriage is a subgenre of American comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s. At the time, the Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, banned any explicit references to or attempts to justify adultery and illicit sex.

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   Is the Philadelphia Story a remarriage comedy?

   • There’s another sub-genre that The Philadelphia Story has often been aligned with. The comedy of remarriage was an extension of the screwball comedy that became prominent throughout the 1930s and early 1940s as the Production Code banned any reference to sex out of marriage or adultery in movies.

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   What is the comedy of remarriage?

   • The comedy of remarriage is a subgenre of American comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s. At the time, the Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, banned any explicit references to or attempts to justify adultery and illicit sex. The comedy of remarriage with the same spouse enabled filmmakers to evade this provision of the Code.

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   Is the Philadelphia Story a romantic comedy?

   • Eighty years after its release, The Philadelphia Story's grace, wit, and sheer romanticism doesn't just mean it stands out as one of the best films to emerge from the classic Hollywood era, but that it also might be the definitive romantic comedy, too. That's if it's even a romantic comedy in the first place.

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   Is the Philadelphia Story a screwball comedy?

   • As Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald, the author of Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, explains, some people believe that The Philadelphia Story is a screwball comedy, rather than romantic comedy, as it uses various tropes of the sub-genre, including "warring lovers" and has some elements of overlapping dialogue.

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   Film critic Stanley Cavell coined the subgenre "comedy of remarriage" to account for the trend in Hollywood comedies of the 1930s and 1940s to focus on stories of divorced couples coming back together and giving it a second go.

   • Author: George Cukor

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   Jul 2, 2021 · Even though The Philadelphia Story is one of the best-known examples of the “comedy of remarriage” subgenre, popular in the 1930s and ‘40s, I was still delighted with how the film kept me guessing as to who Tracy would end up with by the film’s finale.

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   Jan 20, 2021 · The comedy of remarriage was an extension of the screwball comedy that became prominent throughout the 1930s and early 1940s as the Production Code banned any reference to sex out of marriage...

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7. filmlifestyle.com › comedy-of-remarriageWhat Is a Comedy of Remarriage: Romance Rekindled on Screen

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   A comedy of remarriage is a subgenre of romantic comedy that became prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s. It’s characterized by plots where a couple divorces, flirts with outsiders, and then rekindles their romance. Films like The Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday are prime examples.

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Screwball_comedyScrewball comedy - Wikipedia

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   One subgenre of screwball is known as the comedy of remarriage, in which characters divorce and then remarry one another (The Awful Truth (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940)).

9. www.imdb.com › title › tt0032904The Philadelphia Story (1940) - IMDb

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   With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey. 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.