Brackets for Favorite Screwball Comedy Film Tourney

I have made the selections for the 32 films that will be competing in my Favorite Screwball Tourney. I have four brackets which I have named in honor of four of the most honored directors of the genre: Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, and Howard Hawks. Two of the brackets action will take place over on Screwball Cinema while the other two will take place here on All Good Things. I already had posted about what films would be the top four seeds in each respective bracket, so now comes the other 28 films. And I used my cards in a basket trick to pull out titles randomly to see where each film would land, bracket wise. And looking at some of the matches, we will have some barn burners.The Sturges and Lubitsch brackets will be held on Screwball Cinema while All Good Things will host Capra and Hawks. So here are the match-ups which are scheduled to begin Sunday. You will notice that a lot of familiar faces will be present through-out this tourney. Such as Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, William Powell and Myrna Loy. Should be great seeing the best screwball comedies going up against each other. I for one am looking forward to it.

FRANK CAPRA BRACKET

1 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

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8 THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943)

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4 MERRILY WE LIVE (1938)

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5 THE GILDED LILY (1935)

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3 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

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6 TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934)

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2 HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1934)

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7 THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR (1941)

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HOWARD HAWKS BRACKET

1 MY MAN GODFREY (1936)

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8 EASY LIVING (1937)

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4 THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)

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5 ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)

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3 YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938)

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6 BLUEBEARD'S EIGHT WIFE (1938)

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2 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)

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7 BALL OF FIRE (1941)