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"Goes Wild" had a different connotation in 1936, seven decades before "Girls Gone Wild." In "Theodora Goes Wild," Irene Dunne portrays a meek, small-town woman who wrote a "racy" novel under a pseudonym.

Anne Crandall is a widowed smalltown mayor who lives with her father-in-law and high-strung teenage stepdaughter Diana .

We continue to live in a golden age of classic movies pouring out on DVD. Here's a survey of recent goodies, all packed with icons.

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Volume one of the new, two-volume set "Icons of Screwball Comedy," which brings eight vintage films to DVD.

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EW Home // DVD // Reviews // Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vols 1 & 2 WISE CRACKS Fred MacMurray, Jean Arthur, and Melvyn Douglas in Too Many Husbands Everett Collection By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column In the 1930s and '40s, stars like Cary Grant and Katharine ...

The films are uneven, but the transfers are gorgeous in Sony's two volume "Icons of Screwball Comedy," which includes two films each from Columbia contract players Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne and Loretta Young.

The details: Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s, Columbia Pictures was engaged in a fairly consistent program of upgrading its product.

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