American Comedy and the Great Depression

The Great Depression had an impact on many aspects of American culture. American Film, especially in the Comedy genre was a good example of this.
By the 1930s, the country had undergone huge social changes. Women had recently gotten the vote and were beginning to gain a previously unheard of social independence. The Stock Market crash of 1929 began an economic depression that soon affected most of America. By the peak of the Depression in 1933 almost twenty-five percent of the country was unemployed, while even more people just made ends meet. …