My Man Godfrey

Name: My Man Godfrey
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: September 6, 1936
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Alan Mowbray, Alice Brady, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Gail Patrick

1936

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 6, 1936 | TV-G

Starring: Alan Mowbray, Alice Brady, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Mischa Auer, Pat Flaherty, Robert Light, William Powell

Summary: A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

Director: Gregory La Cava

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 94 min

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Roger Ebert

One of the treasures of 1930s screwball comedy. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

One of the better, if not the best, of the famous screwball comedies of the era, Godfrey stands as an excellent example of witty scripting, direction, and editing. Read full review

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

In one of her greatest roles, as burbling blonde heiress Irene Bullock in Gregory La Cava’s 1934 screwball masterpiece My Man Godfrey, Lombard creates a ditz so rare, a creature so otherwordly in her oblivion to what others call reality, that she comes off less as a thing of flesh and blood than as a shimmering cloud of butterflies flying in perfect, girl-shaped formation. Read full review

The Guardian Pamela Hutchinson

The humour in My Man Godfrey is madcap, but in the best way. Read full review

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William Powell and Carole Lombard are pleasantly teamed in this splendidly produced comedy. Story is balmy, but not too much so, and lends itself to the sophisticated screen treatment of Eric Hatch's novel. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Chaplin built his reputation of finding the poignant humour in poverty, and many screwball comedies of the sound era invariably touched on the Depression, none more so than Gregory La Cava’s 1936 My Man Godfrey. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Gregory La Cava's improvisational style received its highest critical acclaim for this 1936 film, a marginally Marxist exercise in class confusion during the Depression. Read full review

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