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- 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, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake.
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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.
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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, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake.
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
Details. My Man Godfrey is a 1936 screwball comedy directed by Gregory La Cava. The film stars William Powell as Godfrey, a "forgotten man" who is hired as a butler by a wealthy family during the Great Depression. Carole Lombard co-stars as Irene, a spoiled socialite who discovers Godfrey in a city dump. The film combines humor and social ...
May 29, 2008 · 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.”
5 days ago · My Man Godfrey is an iconic 1936 screwball comedy stylishly directed ... Godfrey spends most of the movie resisting Irene’s increasingly ... The complex plot continues with a series of funny ...
My Man Godfrey (1936) is one of the 1930's most delightful, classic screwball comedies. It was directed by Gregory La Cava for Universal and is now considered the definitive screwball comedy, with its social commentary on life during the 30s.
