Kathrina Glitre is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England

"'I feel that from the opening pages I am in the presence of an author who knows with absolute confidence what she is doing and that she has all the necessary skills to carry her project through. Kathrina Glitre's book on the heyday of Hollywood romantic comedy seems to me destined to become a classic of its kind.' Brian McFarlane, Editor of the Encyclopedia of British Cinema"

• Introduction; Part I: Hollywood romantic comedy; 1. Genre, cycles and critical traditions; Part II: Marriage; 2. The same, but different: marriage, remarriage and screwball comedy; 3. Making marriage fun: Myrna Loy and William Powell; Part III: Equality; 4. A little difference: equality and the career woman comedy; 5. Economy and excess: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn; Part IV: Desire; 6. Possess me: consuming desires in the sex comedy; 7. There must be a boy! Doris Day and Rock Hudson; Conclusion: the extraordinary couple; Appendix: the cycles.

Kathrina Glitre is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England

"'I feel that from the opening pages I am in the presence of an author who knows with absolute confidence what she is doing and that she has all the necessary skills to carry her project through. Kathrina Glitre's book on the heyday of Hollywood romantic comedy seems to me destined to become a classic of its kind.' Brian McFarlane, Editor of the Encyclopedia of British Cinema"

• Introduction; Part I: Hollywood romantic comedy; 1. Genre, cycles and critical traditions; Part II: Marriage; 2. The same, but different: marriage, remarriage and screwball comedy; 3. Making marriage fun: Myrna Loy and William Powell; Part III: Equality; 4. A little difference: equality and the career woman comedy; 5. Economy and excess: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn; Part IV: Desire; 6. Possess me: consuming desires in the sex comedy; 7. There must be a boy! Doris Day and Rock Hudson; Conclusion: the extraordinary couple; Appendix: the cycles.

Kathrina Glitre is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England

"'I feel that from the opening pages I am in the presence of an author who knows with absolute confidence what she is doing and that she has all the necessary skills to carry her project through. Kathrina Glitre's book on the heyday of Hollywood romantic comedy seems to me destined to become a classic of its kind.' Brian McFarlane, Editor of the Encyclopedia of British Cinema"

• Introduction; Part I: Hollywood romantic comedy; 1. Genre, cycles and critical traditions; Part II: Marriage; 2. The same, but different: marriage, remarriage and screwball comedy; 3. Making marriage fun: Myrna Loy and William Powell; Part III: Equality; 4. A little difference: equality and the career woman comedy; 5. Economy and excess: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn; Part IV: Desire; 6. Possess me: consuming desires in the sex comedy; 7. There must be a boy! Doris Day and Rock Hudson; Conclusion: the extraordinary couple; Appendix: the cycles.