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Twentieth Century is a 1934 American pre-Code screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, and Roscoe Karns. Much of the film is set on the 20th Century Limited train as it travels from Chicago to New York City.
Twentieth Century: Directed by Howard Hawks. With John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1934-05-11
When down-on-his-luck Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) meets his discovery and former flame, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), on the glamorous 20th Century Limited train between...
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- John Barrymore
- Howard Hawks
- Comedy
Film Details. Based on the play Twentieth Century by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (New York, 29 Dec 1932), as produced by George Abbott and Philip Dunning, and based on the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles Bruce Millholland.
- Howard Hawks, C. C. Coleman
- John Barrymore
When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard the Twentieth Century Limited.
Major Pygmalion vibes abound in Howard Hawks' formative screwball comedy Twentieth Century, which details the precarious romance between egomaniacal Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore looking deep into the future to fuse the personae of Gene Wilder and Kevin Kline) and coarse lingerie model cum leading lady Lily Garland, née Mildred ...
Twentieth Century (1934) 1934 USA. Directed by. Howard Hawks.
