Sentence examples for modest comedy from inspiring English sources

Bogarde became a star in the 1954 "Doctor in the House," a modest comedy about the misadventures of a band of medical students.

A modest comedy, Fearless Fagan (1952), and Give a Girl a Break (1953), with a performance by Debbie Reynolds and the dancing of Bob Fosse and Gower Champion, preceded Donen's next major triumph, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).

Small Time Crooks (2000) was a modest comedy starring Allen and Tracy Ullman as a married couple whose elaborate (but essentially absurd) bank robbery plan predictably goes off the rails.

The ostensible subject of this smart, deceptively modest comedy is female beauty, which is also the apparent subject of a documentary made by one of its characters, a frustrated filmmaker named Kate, who is played by the screenwriter Lynne Adams.

Stravinsky's "Mavra," though rich in familiar Stravinskyan rhythmic and harmonic moves, is a modest comedy, based on a Pushkin story about Parasha, who persuades her boyfriend, Vasily, to dress as a woman and take a job as her family's cook.

The same year she was leading lady to the comedian Richard Hayward in her first film, Irish and Proud of It (1936), a modest comedy co-written and directed by Donovan Pedelty (later to become editor of the popular film magazine, Picturegoer) and she had an unbilled role as a dancer in As You Like It (1936), one of Laurence Olivier's early films.

(Rooney) 'The Vandal' The playwriting debut of the actor Hamish Linklater is a modest comedy-drama of two lonely souls, a widow (the wonderful Deirdre O'Connell) and widower (Zach Grenier, ditto), brought together by a talky youngster played by the puckish Noah Robbins.

(Zinoman) 'The Vandal' The playwriting debut of the actor Hamish Linklater is a modest comedy-drama of two lonely souls, a widow (the wonderful Deirdre O'Connell) and widower (Zach Grenier, ditto), brought together by a talky youngster played by the puckish Noah Robbins.

But this modest, tidy comedy dates from 1975.

A modest British comedy about unemployed steelworkers doing a striptease act, it had no major stars and was directed by the relatively unknown Peter Cattaneo.

The modest, warmhearted comedy, lacking major stars and directed by Joel Zwick, a veteran of television sitcoms, has become the box-office phenomenon of the summer.