The Good Old Days (take only as directed)
It's probably not surprising that a film series entitled Depression/Comedy would focus on films produced during the Great Depression (often with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in various combinations). Slightly more surprising is our next film, which is every bit the Depression-era comedy, except it was made two decades later. Trust me. There is a reason why the 1930s is often remembered today as the Golden Age of Hollywood. Not only was this a decade of intense creativity, it was also a time when the "studio system" was working at its peak efficiency. Each studio employed a full-time roster of writers, directors, performers etc who were uniquely positioned to pump out film after film after film for a Depression-ravaged audience that was desperate for everything they could get. The system functioned extremely smoothly, and the quality of the product was very high. But nothing lasts forever. At the end of World War II, everything began to change. The Hol