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American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot—the first feature-length sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), changed Hollywood. Lost in the discussion of that transition is the overlap

Title : Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
Author : David Kalat
Language : en
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