Roman Holiday remains one of romantic comedy’s most delectable treats

When Romance Met Comedy With When Romance Met Comedy , Caroline Siede examines the history of the rom-com through the years, one happily ever after (or not) at a time. If movie genres were ice cream flavors, romantic comedies would be vanilla: Simple, satisfying, and unchallenging. You can jazz it up with toppings or mix in other flavors, but at the end of the day, it's the comforting familiarity that's the selling point. That being said, there's a massive range in quality between a handcrafted artisanal pint and a two-gallon bucket of artificially flavored gloop. There's an art to making a truly great romantic comedy, just as there's an art to making a truly great vanilla ice cream. And on the high end of that spectrum sits Roman Holiday , perhaps the finest vanilla gelato the rom-com genre has ever served up. Advertisement Like Harold And Maude or When Harry Met Sally , Roman Holiday is one of those romantic comedies that's inspired so many copycats that the original can almost seem too familiar to first-time viewers. Three years after Disney canonized our shared image of Cinderella with its 1950 animated classic, Roman Holiday popularized the "reverse Cinderella" romance—the story… Read full this story

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