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Twentieth Century
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Approved
1934
1h 31m
Comedy
,
Romance
7.2
86%
75%
6.8
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A flamboyant Broadway impresario who's fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover who has become a Hollywood diva to return and resurrect his failing career.
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Cast of Twentieth Century
John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe
Carole Lombard
Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka
Walter Connolly
Oliver Webb
Roscoe Karns
Owen O'Malley
Ralph Forbes
George Smith
Charles Lane
Max Jacobs
Etienne Girardot
Matthew J. Clark
Dale Fuller
Sadie
Edgar Kennedy
Oscar McGonigle
Billie Seward
Anita
Herman Bing
Beard #1 (uncredited)
James Burke
Sheriff (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
Flannigan (uncredited)
Clarence Geldart
Colonel Merriweather in Play (uncredited)
A.R. Haysel
Bob (uncredited)
Howard Hickman
Dr. Johnson (uncredited)
Lee Kohlmar
Beard #2 (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Mulligan (uncredited)
Mary Jo Mathews
Emmy Lou in Play (uncredited)
George Offerman, Jr.
Page Boy (uncredited)
Twentieth Century Ratings & Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
There aren't enough adjectives to fully commend Barrymore and Lombard for their peerless work, here.
The New Republic
Otis Ferguson
John Barrymore fits [his role] as wholly and smoothly as a banana in a skin; and appropriate metaphors should be devised for Walter Connolly, Carole Lombard and Roscoe Karns.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
With all the slimy tricks, delusions of grandeur, and high-pitched shouting matches, it's difficult to appreciate even the moments that demonstrate creative commentary on love and art.
Cinema Siren
Leslie Combemale
The witty repartee and lightning fast pacing keeps viewers breathlessly entertained.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
A weird look at an actress with a love-hate relation with her outrageous, dominating director.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
[Howard Hawks'] mix of frantic pacing, whiplash shifts in tone and devil-may-care direction of glamorous stars in wacky parts launched the defining comedy genre of the thirties.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
One of the sharpest ever comedy film scripts is turned in by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Often credited as the first screwball comedy… an acerbic satire of show-business ego and superficiality.
Film Journal International
Daniel Eagan
Classic screwball romance between overbearing Broadway producer and his gorgeous but empty headed protege
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A shining example of moviemaking magnificence.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Funny, but it gets too repetitious in the last act and slowly crumbles into the relatively obscure minor work it has become today.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Less a backstage farce than prototypical screwball, Howard Hawks' brilliantly funny Twentieth Century set the stage for the subgenre that most consider the peak of American screen humor.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Casually reverses and undermines its frumpy thesis by validating the effortlessly supple benefits of the seventh art.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...far from the classic it's often made out to be.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
There is many a witty remark in this harum-scarum adventure.
Austin Chronicle
Raoul Hernandez
It was the first of Hawks' three immortal screwball goldmines,
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The movie is a veritable concerto for their remarkable talents, put across by Hawks with maximal energy and voltage.
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