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My Man Godfrey
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Mood: | Witty |
| Decade: | 1930's |
| Country: | United States |
| Director: | Gregory LaCava |
| Actor: | William Powell |
| Actress: | Carole Lombard |
| Supporting Cast: | Eugene Palette |
| Release Year: | 1936 |
| Studio: | Criterion Collection |
| Runtime: | 95 Mins. |
| Format: | Black & White |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| New On: | Site |
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WHAT IT'S ABOUT:Through a contest only the idle rich could invent, a daffy family hires a forgotten man from skid row to become the new butler in their zany household. Younger daughter Irene (Lombard) proceeds to fall in love with him. Godfrey (Powell), however, is not precisely who, or what, he seems. WHY I LOVE IT:Gregory La Cava’s sublime “Godfrey” blends screwball elements with more serious overtones on Depression-era class injustice, to create a wildly entertaining yet thought-provoking movie that holds up beautifully. The term debonair was indeed coined for Powell, and Lombard makes for an adorable ditz. (Trivia note: the two stars had been married briefly several years earlier, but had divorced amicably, and remained good friends). Highlights: comic actor Mischa Auer as Mrs. Bullock’s “protégé”, along with the rotund Pallette as Mr. Bullock, the family’s frustrated industrialist father, who appears more like an impotent keeper at an asylum. |
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