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My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

7.6/ 10

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1936

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95 min

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Comedy

Overview

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. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

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Keywords

lovesickness
butler
scavenger hunt
black and white
screwball comedy
socialite
depression era
high society
lovesick
mentor protégé relationship
protégé
city dump
idle rich
propriety
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Reviews(4)

8.8avg rating
barrymost

barrymost

October 4, 2019

9
9/10

"Forgotten Man" meets flighty, rich heiress . . . and so begins one of classic cinema's funniest, most delightful, most intelligent comedies ever. William Powell as the hobo Godfrey hits all the right notes. Carole Lombard is terrific, if slightly over the top, as Irene Bullock, the "uptown girl loo

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John Chard

John Chard

April 26, 2020

10
10/10

I see a room full of empty headed nitwits! If I was the sort of person who scrutinised every frame of my viewings looking for flaws, then I still wouldn't have issue here because My Man Godfrey has no cracks in its make up. It is perfect cinema from a golden age that we rarely see in this day an

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

August 22, 2020

9
9/10

I am not one of those people who say that they don’t make movies like they used to, or who watches a lot of classic black and white films. But there are a few dozen classics I would watch any time they come on, and this is one of them. My Man Godfrey is in the sub genre of screwball comedy, and i

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 30, 2025

7
7/10

Whilst much of the country is in the throes of poverty, the ditzy socialite “Irene” (Carole Lombard) finds herself down by the city dump whilst playing an up-market scavenger hunt and that’s where she encounters the down-and-out looking “Godfrey” (William Powell) who might just help her win her chal

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