On a tour of the city dump, Tommy Gray and Godfrey walk into the shanty town: "The village of forgotten men." The aromatic stench is from "That's Old Man River - you get used to it after a …

Nov 17, 2018 · The plot of the film takes place during the Great Depression wherein Powell’s character, Godfrey Parke, a Harvard graduate, is living in a slum near the 59th Street Bridge in …

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 a dump. She gives …

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" as their butler.

The plot—flipped, flopped, and outright stolen many times since—revolves around Godfrey “Smith,” an obviously cultivated man (he is played by William Powell, the ultimate in urbanity) …

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 …

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River.

What they find is a down-and-out derelict named Godfrey (William Powell), whose rumpled dignity, ironic cynicism, and self-aware mien seem hardly typical of his station in life.

My Man Godfrey ★★★★ 1936 Spoiled rich girl Irene Bullock (Lombard) picks up someone she assumes is a bum (Powell) as part of a scavenger hunt and decides to keep him on as her …

When Irene wins a society scavenger hunt (and atypically trumps her scheming sister) by producing a "lost man," a seeming tramp named Godfrey (William Powell), all their lives are …