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Twentieth Century (film)
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| Directed by | Howard Hawks |
| Produced by | Howard Hawks |
| Written by | Charles MacArthur Ben Hecht |
| Starring | John Barrymore Carole Lombard Walter Connolly |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 3, 1934 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English / German |
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- For the Broadway play of the same name, see Twentieth Century.
Twentieth Century is a 1934 American screwball comedy film. It is set on board the 20th Century Limited, a luxury train bound for Grand Central Station in New York City from Chicago. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their play of the same name for the screen with assistance from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges, neither of whom was credited. The cast, directed by Howard Hawks, included John Barrymore (giving an Oscar-worthy performance), Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns and Edgar Kennedy.
The film is one of three works based to some extent on an unproduced Broadway play written by Charles Bruce Millholland. The other two were Twentieth Century, a 1932 play written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and the 1978 Tony Award-winning musical On the Twentieth Century, whose original cast featured John Cullum, Madeline Kahn and Imogene Coca.
Among the passengers are egomaniacal Broadway theatre producer Oscar Jaffe (Barrymore), desperately in need of a hit after a succession of dismal flops, and his former sweetheart, temperamental actress Lily Garland (Lombard), a shopgirl named Mildred Plotka he molded into a star who then abandoned him for a Hollywood career. Jaffe is determined to woo her back to the stage - and, perhaps, his bed - while she is just as determined to ignore his advances, both professional and romantic.
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