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My Man Godfrey. My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly married years before appearing together in the film. [2][5] The screenplay for My Man Godfrey was written by Morrie Ryskind and Eric S. Hatch, with uncredited contributions by ...
My Man Godfrey: Directed by Gregory La Cava. With William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick. A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Gregory La Cava
- 1936-09-06
May 29, 2008 · The man who came to buttle. In “My Man Godfrey” (1936), the spoiled heiress Irene (Carole Lombard) displays her futile love for her butler (William Powell) during this kitchen scene, when she tells him: “I want to wipe.”. When Carole Lombard and the family maid discuss the newly hired butler, we can read her mind when she says, “I’d ...
And indeed, in 1936’s My Man Godfrey, director Gregory La Cava offers an exceptional amount of craziness on the way to romantic (and audience) bliss. The plot—flipped, flopped, and outright stolen many times since—revolves around Godfrey “Smith,” an obviously cultivated man (he is played by William Powell, the ultimate in urbanity ...
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich ...
My Man Godfrey. Carole Lombard and William Powell dazzle in this definitive screwball comedy by Gregory La Cava—a potent cocktail of romantic repartee and social critique. Irene (Lombard), an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a “forgotten man” (Powell)—an apparent down-and-out drifter—at ...
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In addition, My Man Godfrey garnered nominations for Best Actor (Powell), Best Supporting Actor (Mischa Auer), Best Supporting Actress (Alice Brady), Best Director and Best Screenplay. In 1957, Universal-International remade My Man Godfrey with June Allyson and David Niven in the lead roles but it was a pale imitation of the original film.
