My Man Godfrey

About My Man Godfrey

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.

Gregory La Cava's My Man Godfrey is a 1936 comedy film. The film is filed under screwball comedy, mentor protégé relationship, lovesickness, and socialite.

William Powell takes the lead as Godfrey, Carole Lombard as Irene Bullock, Alice Brady as Angelica Bullock, and Gail Patrick as Cornelia Bullock. It runs 95 minutes and was released in September 1936.

The screenplay is by Eric S. Hatch and Morrie Ryskind. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Artiflix in the United States.

The Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, and It's a Wonderful Life make useful companions to My Man Godfrey, all filed under black and white and high society. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 409 votes and it carries a NR rating.