Following the introduction of sound in the late 1920’s, the film industry flourished, and multiple genres took their place in the forefront of the industry, including gangster, horror, and western films (Dixon & Foster 90-91). One genre of film that started in the early 1930s and became popular until the late 1940s was the “screwball comedy”, which contained elements consisting of comedy and romance (Dixon & Foster 99-100). It was “characterized by social satire, comedic relief through zany, fast-paced and unusual events, and precisely-timed, fast-paced verbal dueling and witty sarcastic dialogue…” (Comedy 1). This genre was also very prevalent at the time because it provided comedic relief, but it also had the theme of love, in which usually
