comedy tonight if by tonight you mean

Comedy Tonight, If By "Tonight" You Mean "April 22"

The Digital Bits takes time out from its Blu-Ray victory lap to report

that Universal will be releasing four much-requested Paramount

comedies on April 22:

- The Major and the Minor (1942), Billy Wilder's first and in some

ways funniest movie as a director;

- Midnight (1939), written by Wilder and Charles Brackett and directed

by Mitchell Leisen, with Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert and John

Barrymore, a movie that is fondly-remembered enough that it recently

spawned remake rumors;

- Easy Living, directed by Leisen and written by Preston Sturges,

starring Jean Arthur, Ray Milland, and Edward Arnold. Often thought of

as a sort of embryonic Sturges movie; he didn't direct it, but it's

the sort of movie he would later direct.

- She Done Him Wrong with Mae West and Cary Grant.

(For some reason Sturges and Wilder never had much good to say about

Leisen, though by any normal standards he was one of the best

directors at Paramount; maybe they just happened to feel they would

have done these scripts differently, but his direction has a lot of

charm, which is not something that Wilder or Sturges were particularly