Once launched from routine thrillers, King made the usual array of lightweight comedies, romances and thrillers.
From 1928 he appeared in more than 250 films, mostly lightweight comedies of the Wiener Film genre popular among German and Austrian audiences during the 1930s and 40s.
But when it comes to lightweight comedies, we don't want to do one that's been seen a million times.
One of his pilots for next season is a lightweight supernatural comedy called "Free Spirit" and he has produced three new feature film comedies.
The Doris Day Show was considered a rather lightweight comedy.
Big sloppy Hollywood attempt at lightweight Gallic comedy.
J. Hartley Manners's lightweight comedy became a popular American classic almost from the hour of its Broadway premiere in 1912.
As a full-length two-hander for the stage, it makes a diverting if lightweight comedy that offers some facile observations about late-20th-century American family and society.
Francis Veber's giddy, lightweight odd-couple comedies are guilty pleasures.
Air Strike (1955), a minor military drama, was followed by the lightweight comedy The Madcaps (filmed in 1959, re-released 1964).