"When Ladies Battle" has the potential to charm, being a romantic and gently satiric period comedy that was a period comedy even in its own day.

The ident was re-used in early 2005 for the opening continuity announcement in the second series of the period comedy Look Around You.

Eastwood next starred in the period comedy City Heat (1984) with Burt Reynolds.

The period romantic comedy, produced by Elizabeth McCann and directed by Jack O'Brien, should arrive on Broadway later in the year.

The director then turned his attention away from giallo movies, filming two Italian TV dramas and a period comedy (The Five Days) in 1973.

It has been described as a "gentle but dark" period comedy (set in 1967) with a low budget.

All of which was sure to be terrible news for whoever got the "Woody Allen role" in the director's new period comedy, "Bullets Over Broadway."

A period comedy set in 1985, the story chronicles the adventures of Brian Jackson, a student in his first year at Bristol University.

It wasn't until she got "very keen on high comedy during quarter term" and began playing character parts in period comedies that Miss Shaw found her niche as a professional actress.

Today, on DVD, "Dr. Strangelove" is a period comedy.