Preston Sturges may have been the greatest comedy writer in Hollywood's long history. The string of films he directed, as well as wrote, in the early forties, from The Great McGinty to Hail the Conquering Hero constitute one of the longest sustained winning streaks, in terms of quality and hilarity, of the studio system era (probably unmatched since the days of Chaplin & Keaton). Here's a brief scene from near the beginning of one of his lesser known efforts, Palm Beach Story, starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, and the inimitible Robert Dudley as the Weinie King:
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