ABSTRACT
Silent movies were a separate type of creation with Charlie Chaplin leading on the comedy side and Rudolph Valentino on the drama. Around ten years after movies started talking in 1927, we came upon a golden age of movie love stories. A group of writers, directors, and actors came into their prime and gave us many of the greatest love stories ever filmed in half a dozen years. Ernst Lubitsch's films were luminously shot in black and white and seemed to glow with luxury and beauty. This is where folks beaten down by the Great Depression could go for a few cents and feel like millionaires for a couple of hours. Billy Wilder was also a screenwriter with his partner I. A. L. Diamond. His list of love stories is award laden and world class. The Screwball Comedies is a sub-genre of love stories that are featherweight, powered by champagne fizziness, peopled with ditzy dames and hapless fellows.
