Preston Sturges - 1942
I mean, all Sturges films are charming, and really rather funny in an absurd way. Here we have the idea of mistaken identities being the 'good' ones taken to their logical conclusions; lets have a fantasy world of clones, so there's enough of everything to go around. For all the entrapment with money, the use of sex and so on, Sturges is in a sense deeply romantic.
Also the interesting narrative opening and closing, asking what comes before or after the classic Hollywood film (while largely, plus absurdism, being that itself).
Notice also that Sturges, for whatever reason, seems really opposed to non-diagetic music; we go to elaborate lengths when he wants it for it to be diagetic (orchestras, record players given time to being turned on, etc).
We also have the return of the fantasy of infinite wealth, of the ordinary man with desperate, slightly crazy hopes.
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