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Twentieth Century

Directed by Howard Hawks

ComedyRomance

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

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Oscar Jaffe

Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka

Walter Connolly

Oliver Webb

Owen O'Malley

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Screenplay

Charles MacArthur

Screenplay

Joseph H. August

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Preston Sturges

Writer

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Twentieth Century is about a temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

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Howard Hawks directed Twentieth Century.

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