comedy films of 1930s

 

100 Comedy Films of the 1930s

#	Film	Year	Notes
1	Animal Crackers	1930	Marx Brothers’ zany humor
2	Feet First	1930	Harold Lloyd slapstick
3	The Cuckoos	1930	Wheeler & Woolsey comedy
4	Check and Double Check	1930	Amos ’n’ Andy feature
5	City Lights	1931	Chaplin’s masterpiece
6	Monkey Business	1931	Marx Brothers chaos
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8	The Front Page	1931	Newspaper satire
9	Horse Feathers	1932	Marx Brothers college spoof
10	Trouble in Paradise	1932	Ernst Lubitsch romantic comedy
11	Million Dollar Legs	1932	W.C. Fields absurdity
12	Love Me Tonight	1932	Musical comedy
13	Duck Soup	1933	Marx Brothers political satire
14	Dinner at Eight	1933	Ensemble comedy-drama
15	Design for Living	1933	Lubitsch ménage-à-trois comedy
16		1934	Capra’s Oscar-winning screwball
17		1934	Comedy-mystery
18	Twentieth Century	1934	Screwball satire
19	Babes in Toyland	1934	Laurel & Hardy fantasy
20	A Night at the Opera	1935	Marx Brothers classic
21	Top Hat	1935	Astaire & Rogers musical comedy
22	Ruggles of Red Gap	1935	Class satire
23	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Adventure with comedic touches
24	Modern Times	1936	Chaplin’s satire on industry
25	Swing Time	1936	Astaire & Rogers musical
26		1936	Screwball comedy
27	Libeled Lady	1936	Romantic screwball
28	The Awful Truth	1937	Cary Grant & Irene Dunne
29	Nothing Sacred	1937	Satire of tabloid journalism
30	Easy Living	1937	Preston Sturges script
31	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Screwball with Grant & Hepburn
32	Holiday	1938	Romantic comedy
33	You Can’t Take It With You	1938	Capra’s whimsical family comedy
34	Ninotchka	1939	Greta Garbo in Lubitsch comedy
35	Bachelor Mother	1939	Ginger Rogers screwball
36	The Women	1939	All-female cast satire
37	At the Circus	1939	Marx Brothers
38	Destry Rides Again	1939	Western comedy
39	The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle	1939	Musical comedy
40	Made for Each Other	1939	Romantic comedy