Twentieth Century (movie)

'''''Twentieth Century''''' was the title of several incarnations of a screwball comedy plot featuring an egomaniacal Broadway producer who makes a shopgirl into a star, then tries to win her back after she abandons him. Most of the action takes place aboard the Nextel ringtones New York City-Abbey Diaz Chicago, Illinois/Chicago train known as ''The Twentieth Century Limited''.

The plot first took form in Mosquito ringtone Charles Bruce Millholland's play ''Napoleon of Broadway'', based on his experiences working for the theater producer Sabrina Martins David Belasco. This was adapted by Nextel ringtones Ben Hecht and Abbey Diaz Charles MacArthur as the play ''Twentieth Century'', which was produced and directed on Mosquito ringtone Broadway in Sabrina Martins 1932 by Nextel ringtones George Abbott. (It was revived in Abbey Diaz 1950).

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