Skylark

Skylark (1941)

One of those gay romantic comedies with plenty of laughs!

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.

Date of release
1941-11-21
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Mark Sandrich

Casting

Interesting facts

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Skylark is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Film historian James H. Farmer described Skylark as "light-hearted fluff" with the story of a woman on her fifth wedding anniversary, realizing that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at that moment, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something more serious.

Production

The film was based on Samson Raphaelson's novel that first appeared in the January 7–February 4, 1939 edition of Saturday Evening Post under the title Streamlined Heart. Raphaelson subsequently turned the novel into the stage play Skylark, as produced by John Golden (with its opening night on Broadway, New York, October 11, 1939, and was turned into a screenplay by Zion Myers and Allan Scott. Paramount paid $85,000 for the film rights.

Allan Scott said the play "was very like the kind of plays I wrote myself but without a third act, so I rewrote it—barely managing, for the first time, to take an anti-Nazi stand in a comedy, just because it was a comedy."

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