July 28 – Aug 3 Screwball Comedy: Just imagine, the Great Depression is raging and you’re getting less than a fin a week at the rubber boiling factory, but it only costs two bits to go to the movies all day, so let’s watch some quick-talking dames match wits with some dopey joes!

Mr. & Mrs. Smith was the only pure comedy Hitchcock made in the United States — much less a screwball comedy — that he claimed that he made as a favor to Carole Lombard. She plays Ann Smith, whose fights with her husband David are so rough that they last days at a time. She also directed his cameo, making him redo it several times to the cheers of the crew. Man, she sounds like a blast, because she’d also sneak into the parking lot during breaks and put stickers for the opposite political party of her co-star. Robert Montgomery, on his car.

One morning, she asks him a question: would he marry her again if they could do it all over? Considering that he’s lost his freedom and independence, he says no. This gets tested when Harry Deever (Charles Halton) tells them both — independently — that because of a jurisdictional mishap, their three-year marriage in Idaho is no longer valid in New York City, where they now reside.

They break up, and Ann is able to turn David’s law partner and friend, Jefferson Custer (Gene Raymond), on him and even starts dating him. He introduces her to his family and takes her to Lake Placid. David follows with a ploy to get her back.

This is one of the first movies to show a pizzeria, if you can believe that.

You can watch this on YouTube.