Feb 6, 2024 · “My Man Godfrey” was one of three major films in which Powell starred in 1936, the other two being the Best Picture Oscar winner "The Great Ziegfeld" and another classic …

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.

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 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.

Plot Synopsis (continued) On his first morning, the sardonic, wise-cracking, all-wise "seasoned" maid Molly (Jean Dixon), gives him a run-down on the family and warns him that he is the just …

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 …