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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.
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.
May 29, 2008 · Roger Ebert May 29, 2008. Tweet. 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.”. Now streaming on:
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.
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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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 ...
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 ...
