Expert: April - 6/8/2008

Question
Hi April! I greatly admire you and your husband's love of comedies. I personally ADORE Cary Grant's comedic timing in Arsenic and Old Lace! Now for my question. I am trying to come up with as many examples as I can in comedies where a FEMALE character knocks someone out and takes their outfit as a disguise. I know this must happen a TON in movies, especially screwball comedies! So far I know of 5 where this has occured. Canadian Bacon, Dr Jeckyll and Mrs Hyde, Naked Gun 3, Honeymoon in Vegas and Leatherheads. I would VERY MUCH appreciate if you could come up with other comedies where a FEMALE character knocks someone out to steal their outfit as a disguise. It doesn't matter how old the movie is.

Thanks Again April!

Answer
I love Cary Grant!   Have you seen  'Mr. Blandings Dream House' w/ him and Myrna Loy?   HILARIOUS!

hmmn.  this is a difficult one!  not sure if the ones i'm thinking of involve a woman knocking a man out tho...they  may be just stealing the clothes...

Elizabeth Hurley steals a scientists uniform in 'Austin Powers' towards the end...

And in "Just one of the Boys',   The one where the girl wants to play football.  I think she snatches someones clothes also.

But knocking them out?   Hmmnn..

There is an Australian film called 'Break and Enter'.  An intruder is knocked out by a 'supposedly' sleeping woman who lives in the house, but she hits him on the head w/ a frying pan, steals his clothes and leaves him there instead!  Very good/funny.

Can't think of any others tho.  Wish I could be more helpful.