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Edward Everett Horton has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Arsenic and Old Lace.
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The Lady Eve
1941
Comedy · Romance

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963
Comedy · Romance

Heartbreaker
2010
Romance · Comedy

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Comedy · Drama

It Happened One Night
1934
Comedy · Romance

My Favorite Wife
1940
Comedy · Romance

Christmas in Connecticut
1945
Comedy · Romance

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
Comedy · Romance

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Dir. Frank Capra · With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Dir. George Cukor · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Dir. Mark Sandrich · With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Dir. Alexander Hall · With Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
Dir. Mark Sandrich · With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Dir. Mark Sandrich · With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
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