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A few of the words

COLBERT
Claudette Colbert won the Best Actress Oscar for It Happened One Night, released in 1934, the film that put the hitchhiking heiress on the map.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BABY
Baby is the pet leopard in Bringing Up Baby (1938), where Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant spend most of the picture chasing him and a lost dinosaur bone.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GODFREY
My Man Godfrey came out in 1936, with William Powell as the butler and Carole Lombard as the scatterbrained society girl who finds him at a scavenger hunt.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SULLIVAN
Sullivan's Travels was made in 1941 by Preston Sturges, a director who wrote his own fast dialogue and kept a favorite troupe of character actors.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Screwball Comedies

Screwball comedy flourished in the Depression years, when audiences paid a dime or a quarter to watch the rich behave badly and the clever win out. The pictures ran on talk, with actors overlapping lines at a pace that still catches a viewer off guard, and the leading women were usually the smartest people in the room. A night at the pictures meant a double feature, a cartoon and a newsreel, and these were often the part everyone quoted on the drive home.

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