
My Man Godfrey
Butler! FOR THE COCK-EYEDEST FAMILY in the WHOLE WORLD!...and the butler-blonde battle was on!
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.
- 7.5
- 1936
- Released
- 1h 35m

William Powell
Godfrey
Carole Lombard
Irene Bullock
Alice Brady
Angelica Bullock
Gail Patrick
Cornelia Bullock
Eugene Pallette
Alexander Bullock
Jean Dixon
Molly
Alan Mowbray
Tommy Gray
Mischa Auer
Carlo
Pat Flaherty
Mike Flaherty
Robert Light
Faithful George
Bess Flowers
Mrs. Merriweather (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Card Playing Party Guest (uncredited)
Franklin Pangborn
Guthrie (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
Charlie Van Rumple (uncredited)
Jane Wyman
Socialite (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Forgotten Man (uncredited)
Jimmy Aye
Party Guest (uncredited)
James Carlisle
Socialite (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Phyllis Crane
Party Guest (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
Process Server (uncredited)
Grace Field
Socialite (uncredited)
James Flavin
Detective (uncredited)
Edward Gargan
Detective (uncredited)
Carlton Griffin
Socialite (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
Blake (Socialite) (uncredited)
Richard Kipling
Socialite (uncredited)
Andrea Leeds
Socialite at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
Socialite (uncredited)
Reginald Mason
Mayor Courtney (uncredited)
Louis Natheaux
Socialite (uncredited)
Bob Perry
Bob (Doorman) (uncredited)
Katherine Perry
Socialite (uncredited)
Albert Petit
Receptionist (uncredited)
Jean Rogers
Socialite (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
Socialite at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited)
Arthur Singley
Clarence (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Russell Wade
Socialite at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited)
William Wagner
Waiter (uncredited)
Arthur Wanzer
Arthur Valentine (uncredited)
Harley Wood
Socialite (uncredited)

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$575,375.00
$684,200.00
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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 challenge. If he agrees to return with her to the sumptuous Waldorf hotel then he might end up with five

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 it may actually be true that they don’t make them like this any longer, because it seems like most of

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 and age. During a rich person's socialite scavenger hunt, air head Irene Bullock wins the contest to s

"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 looking for a downtown man." What starts as an innocent city scavenger hunt becomes an unlikely roma











