Dunne Clark Gable Cary Grant Jean Harlow Katharine Hepburn Edward Everett Horton Harold Lloyd Carole Lombard Myrna Loy Fred MacMurray Ray Milland William Powell Ginger Rogers Rosalind Russell Barbara Stanwyck James Stewart Directors of screwball comedies: Frank Capra George Cukor Howard Hawks Garson Kanin Gregory La Cava Mitchell Leisen Ernst Lubitsch Leo McCarey Preston Sturges W. S. Van Dyke Billy Wilder Later examples Later films thought to have revived elements of the classic era screwball comedies include: Champagne for Caesar (1950), d. Richard Whorf The Mating Season (1951), d. Mitchell Leisen Monkey Business (1952), d. Howard Hawks* How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), d. Jean Negulesco The Seven Year Itch (1955), d. Billy Wilder Bell, Book and Candle (1958), d. Richard Quine Pillow Talk (1959), d. Michael Gordon Some Like It Hot (1959), d. Billy Wilder The Grass Is Greener (1960), d. Stanley Donen Lover Come Back (1961), d. Delbert Mann One, Two, Three (1961), d. Billy Wilder It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), d. Stanley Kramer Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), d. Howard Hawks Send Me No Flowers (1964), d. Norman Jewison Walk, Don't Run (1966), d. Charles Walters What's Up, Doc? (1972), d. Peter Bogdanovich For Pete's Sake (1974), d. Peter Yates Heaven Can Wait (1978), d. Warren Beatty and Buck Henry Une Femme ou Deux ( "One Woman or Two"; 1985), d. Daniel Vigne Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), d. Susan Seidelman Something Wild (1986), d. Jonathan Demme Overboard (1987), d. Garry Marshall Raising Arizona (1987), d. Coen Brothers Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), d. Pedro Almodóvar Oscar (1991) d. John Landis Sólo con Tu Pareja (1991), d. Alfonso Cuarón The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), d. Joel Coen Flirting With Disaster (1996), d. David O. Russell Runaway Bride (1999) Little Nicky (2000), d. Steven Brill Rat Race (2001), d. Jerry Zucker Intolerable Cruelty (2003), d. Coen Brothers Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), d. Adam McKay Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), d. Bharat Nalluri Our Idiot Brother (2011), d. Jesse Peretz While We're Young (2014), d. Noah Baumbach Mistress America (2015), d. Noah Baumbach She's Funny That Way (2015), d. Peter Bogdanovich Hail, Caesar! (2016), d. Coen Brothers Chongqing Hot Pot (2016), d. Yang Qing Elements of classic screwball comedy often found in more recent films which might otherwise simply be classified as romantic comedies include the "battle of the sexes"