of the old Hollywood cycles, including gangster films and romantic comedies. Screwball comedies also tend to contain ridiculous, farcical situations, such as in Bringing Up Baby, where a couple must take care of a pet leopard during much of the film. Slapstick elements are also frequently present, such as the numerous pratfalls Henry Fonda takes in The Lady Eve (1941). 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)). Some scholars point to this frequent device as evidence of the shift in the American moral code, as it showed freer attitudes toward divorce (though the divorce always turns out to have been a mistake). Another subgenre of screwball comedy has the woman chasing a man who is oblivious to or not interested in her. Examples include Barbara Stanwyck chasing Henry Fonda (The Lady Eve, 1941); Sonja Henie chasing John Payne (Sun Valley Serenade, 1941, and Iceland, 1942); Marion Davies chasing Antonio Moreno (The Cardboard Lover, 1928); Marion Davies chasing Bing Crosby (Going Hollywood, 1933); and Carole Lombard chasing William Powell (My Man Godfrey, 1936). The philosopher Stanley Cavell has noted that many classic screwball comedies turn on an interlude in the state of Connecticut (Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth). In Christmas in Connecticut (1945), the action moves to Connecticut and remains there for the duration of the film. Examples from the classic period The Patsy (1928), directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies, Marie Dressler, and Lawrence Gray The Front Page (1931) (remade as His Girl Friday), directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien Trouble in Paradise (1932), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert Twentieth Century (1934), directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard My Man Godfrey (1936), directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard Cain and Mabel (1936), directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable Libeled Lady (1936), directed by Jack Conway, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy Theodora Goes Wild (1936), directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas The Awful Truth (1937), directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant Nothing Sacred