1934
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My Man Godfrey: Directed by Henry Koster. With June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis, Robert Keith. The spoiled daughter of a rich American family hires as butler an Austrian vagrant she finds on a pier, without knowing that he illegally jumped ship.
Summaries. 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 ...
Rent My Man Godfrey on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A class satire in a class of its own, My Man Godfrey 's screwball comedy is as sharp as the social commentary is biting....
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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 ...
My Man Godfrey (1936) is about a bum, a "forgotten man" who becomes a butler for a wildly rich and stir-crazy household. The film still serves as a benchmark for screwball comedies as well as a social commentary on the impact of The Great Depression on America.
180M subscribers. Subscribed. 4.6K. The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down-and-out "forgotten man"...
Jul 26, 2023 · In Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey, one of the greatest romantic comedies in a decade full of terrific ones, Carole Lombard plays ditzy heiress Irene, who makes a down-on-his-luck “forgotten...
