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"During a riotous society scavenger hunt for a "forgotten man," Lombard finds Powell living in a rubbish dump. She hires him as a butler; and he changes each member of her rich, mad family, while finding new purpose in his own life. A classic screwball comedy of the 1930's."
"During a riotous society scavenger hunt for a "forgotten man," Lombard finds Powell living in a rubbish dump. She hires him as a butler; and he changes each member of her rich, mad family, while finding new purpose in his own life. A classic screwball comedy of the 1930's."@en
"This classic and exceedingly charming romantic comedy is one of the defining films of the "screwball" genre. My Man Godfrey follows a scatterbrained socialite (the irrepressible Carole Lombard) who hires a vagrant (William Powell) as a family butler. But there's far more to Godfrey than meets the eye!"
"William Powell is the penniless Godfrey brought home by society girl Carole Lombard to serve as the family butler. Godfrey winds up teaching his wealthy employers a thing or two about life in this classic comedy."@en
"A romantic comedy about an eccentric society girl who hires a tramp as a butler, who then teaches her that money isn't everything."
"A romantic comedy about an eccentric society girl who hires a tramp as a butler, who then teaches her that money isn't everything."@en
"My man Godfrey (1936): While on a scavenger hunt looking for a "lost man," an eccentric heiress finds a hobo who seems to fit the bill. She hires him as her family's butler, and he soon teaches them that money isn't everything."@en
""When New York socialites Cornelia and Irene Bullock both go to the city dump to obtain a 'forgotten man' for a scavenger hunt being conducted at the Waldorf-Ritz Hotel, they encounter down-and-out Godfrey Parke. Insulted by Cornelia's presumptuous offer of five dollars, the well-spoken Godfrey pushes her into an ashpile. He is charmed by her sister Irene, however, and agrees to be turned in as a 'find.' Irene wins the contest, but Godfrey is disgusted by the careless attitude of the wealthy crowd and deems it a pleasure to return to the dump. Smitten by Godfrey, however, Irene hires him as the family butler, despite the fact that Cornelia vows to make his life miserable. Their scatterbrained mother Angelica supports a resident protégé named Carlos, a fop who does gorilla imitations and eats everything in sight. Irene takes after her mother, and her father Alexander worries about his family's extravagance. When Irene falls in love with Godfrey and kisses him, he admonishes her, and she sulks. During a tea party thrown by Irene, one of the guests, Tommy Gray, recognizes Godfrey as an old college chum. In order to keep his past a secret, Tommy claims Godfrey was his valet and is married with five children. Irene is horrified by this revelation and, out of spite, suddenly announces her engagement to Charlie Van Rumple, a young heir whom she had rebuffed only a few moments before. Tommy and Godfrey meet privately for lunch, and Godfrey's background is revealed to be old Bostonian wealth. He tells Tommy he became a derelict by his own choosing after a bitter disappointment in love. Later Cornelia tries to set Godfrey up by planting her pearls under his bed and calling the police, but a search reveals nothing, and Alexander, suspicious of his daughter's motives, encourages the police to drop the matter. When Irene's engagement is broken, she and Cornelia go on a lengthy trip to Europe. Godfrey, meanwhile, re-visits the dump with Tommy, where he hits on a scheme to turn the forgotten men into working men. When Irene returns from Europe, she still longs for Godfrey and assumes a melodramatic depression. After a beleaguered Alexander announces he is broke, Godfrey surprises everyone by resigning and revealing that he had taken the pearls from his bed and used them as collateral for stocks he played on the market in Alexander's name, thereby saving the family fortune. He returns the pearls to Cornelia, who apologizes for treating him shabbily. Having learned something from each member of the family, Godfrey bids them farewell and returns to the city dump, which he has transformed into a nightclub that employs his fellow derelicts. Irene follows him and determinedly sets up housekeeping. Tommy, who is aware of Irene's intentions, sends the mayor into Godfrey's office in the nightclub, and much to the surprise of a dumbfounded Godfrey, he and Irene are married"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."
"Life with Father: Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800s."
"Based on the novel by Eric Hatch, this screwball comedy is a favorite. On a scavenger hunt for a society ball, haughty Cornelia Bullock discovers Godfrey, a dirty, dishevelled bum lurking around the city dump."@en
"A party girl finds a man she believes is a tramp during a society scavenger hunt and hires him as a butler for her zany millionaire family."
"Meet John Doe (1941): A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his way to power."@en
"Depression-era comedy about a gentleman who was impoverished by the crash but was then hired by a socialite as her family butler. He and the socialite fall in love and change her family's way of life."@en
"Depression-era comedy about a gentleman who was impoverished by the crash but was then hired by a socialite as her family butler. He and the socialite fall in love and change her family's way of life."
"While on a scavenger hunt looking for a "lost man," an eccentric heiress finds a hobo who seems to fit the bill. She hires him as her family's butler, and he soon teaches them that money isn't everything."@en
"[My man Godfrey]: A sweet but spoiled rich girl named Irene picks up Godfrey as part of a Scavenger Hunt, thinking that this bum is the "Forgotten Man" she's been looking for. Godfry soon becomes the butler for her euqally spoiled family and ends up teaching them a few lessons about things more important than money. Godfrey also learns a few things for himself as he begins to fall in love with Irene."
"Socially conscious screwball comedy contrasts the wisdom of the poor to the frivolousness of the affluent. A mysterious butler survives his tenure with a mad, millionaire household while teaching them all valuable lessons."@en
"On a scavenger hunt, socialite Irene Bullock stumbles upon grizzled street person Godfrey underneath an East Rive bridge. Claiming him as a scavenger item, Irene wins the contest. Delighted and imppressed with him, the daffy heiress makes him the new family butler. As Irene succumbs to his romantic charms, Godfrey slowly wins over the entire family with his extrodinary wit and style - all except Irene's jealous sister Cordelia. Soon it is discovered his real identity is that of an Austrian diplomat illegally in this country. Godfrey's attempts to conceal his identity, save the Bullock fortune and thwart Cordelia's plotting, all the while enjoying Irene's romantic overtures, make for a glorious romp."@en
"An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses dirty tricks to keep his ace reporter (and ex-wife) from retiring to marrying a mama's boy (His girl Friday)."
"A landmark screwball comedy from Hollywood's golden age, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante (Carole Lombard) who stumbles upon a "forgotten man" (William Powell) at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed. Featuring brilliant comedic performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell along with Mischa Auer and Alice Brady, this timeless comedy classic was the first film ever to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories."@en
"My man Godfrey: A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are."
"Godfrey, denizen of the city dump, gets more than he bargained for when he allows himself to be rescued by scatter-brained Irene Bullock and turned into the family butler. A classic screwball comedy."
"In one of the great screwball comedies of the 1930s, Lombard finds Powell at a garbage dump and takes him home to work as a butler."@en
"SUMMARY: "In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege' ... who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past ..." IMDB."
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler only to discover that he is richer than they are."@en
"Follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed."@en
"This madcap, romantic romp is one of the finest screwball comedies of them all. Carole Lonbard is a party girl who finds a tramp during a society scavenger hunt and hires him as a butler for her wacky family...never knowiwng that he is richer than she is! William Powell is the 'butler' who teaches them that money isn't everything."
"A romantic comedy about a zany society girl who hires a tramp as a butler and then finds out that he is richer than she is."@en
"A romantic comedy about a zany society girl who hires a tramp as a butler and then finds out that he is richer than she is."
"An eccentric heiress hires a hobo to be her family's butler, and he soon teaches them that money isn't everything (My man Godfrey)."
"1. Ditzy socialite Carole Lombard thinks she's giving tramp William Powell a break-- and it's the best break anyone's ever given her whole family. 2. Conniving editor Cary Grant thinks news of a jailbreak is just the ticket to keep reporter Rosalind Russell from leaving her job-- and him. This pair of classic comedies turn disasters: the Depression, alcoholism, crime and death, and bad choices: a warm-hearted but empty-headed gesture that brings a man into the orbit of a selfish, suspicious family, and a manipulative attempt to stop a proposed marriage, into health, wealth, and happy romantic endings."@en
""In this classic screwball comedy, a wealthy family has their lives changed forever when a poverty-sticken man joins their household as a butler."--Container."@en
"Depression comedy of Powell, a "gentleman" impoverished by the crash, turned up by socialite Lombard and hired as a butler. The "butler" then proceeds to change the socialite and her family's life."@en
"A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler...but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye."
"A Depression-era social comedy in which a wealthy and eccentric family hire a down-and-out man as their butler, only to find that he is a millionaire."
"My man Godfrey: A Zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and finds that he is richer than they are."@en
"An eccentric heiress hires a hobo to be her family's butler, and he soon teaches them that money isn't everything (My man Godfrey). An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses dirty tricks to keep his ace reporter (and ex-wife) from retiring to marrying a mama's boy (His girl Friday)."@en
"Kennel murder case: A Philo Vance mystery with the customary sealed room puzzle. A competitor in a Long Island dog show is found dead, and Vance is hot on the trail of the killer."@en
"An eccentric society girl with an equally eccentric family hires a tramp as a butler, who then teaches her that money isn't everything."
"A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler ... but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye."
"A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler ... but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and finds he is richer than they are."@en
"A romantic comedy about an eccentric society girl on a scavenger hunt who picks up someone she assumes is a bum. She decides to hire him as a butler, and along the way, he teaches her that money isn't everything."@en
"Socially conscious "screwball" comedy contrasts the wisdom of the poor to the frivolity of the affluent. A mysterious butler survives his tenure with a mad, millionaire household while teaching its members valuable lessons."@en
"A Zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and finds that he is richer than they are."@en
"In this socially conscious screwball comedy which contrasts the wisdom of the poor with the frivolousness of the affluent, a mysterious butler survives his tenure with a mad, millionaire household while teaching them all valuable lessons."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are."
"In this screwball comedy set during the Depression, one of the community of 'forgotten men' living on the city dump is fortuitously given the opportunity to become the butler for an eccentric, upper crust family. The family members dizzyingly contrast with each other. They finally achieve some kind of maturity, each through an ambivalent relationship with Godfrey whose own past is gradually revealed."@en
"Heiress (Lombard) hires millionaire (Powell) as a butler thinking he's a tramp. He teaches her household that money isn't everything."
"Une famille de milliardaire embauche un clochard comme maître d'hôtel. Il va régenter les moeurs et se rendre indispensable."
"During the Depression, an heiress and her family hire a tramp to be their butler. The socialite falls in love with derelict Godfrey, but he believes that a romance between a servant and his employer is out of place, irrespective of the hidden past of the servant ..."@en
"When two spoiled, socialite sisters visit the city dump in search of a "forgotten man," Godfrey Parks, down on his luck, accepts the role. Intrigued by his amused disdain for their high society crowd, the younger sister Irene hires him as the family butler. Butlers rarely last a day with the Bullocks, but Godfrey rises to the challenge. With humour, humility and impeccable manners, he affects each member of the family - and finds his own life renewed in the process."
"A bowery bum crosses paths with a young heiress and ends up in the unlikely job of butler for her wealthy family in this screwball comedy from the Great Depression era. But when the daughter ends up falling in love with him, it's revealed there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye!"
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"An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses dirty tricks to keep his ace reporter (and ex-wife) from retiring to marrying a mama's boy."@en
"This madcap, romantic romp is one of the finest screwball comedies of them all. Carole Lonbard is a party girl who finds a tramp during a society scavenger hunt and hires him as a butler for her wacky family...never knowiwng that he is richer than she is! William Powell is the very model of sophisticated comedy as the 'butler' who teaches them that money isn't everything."
"A zany rich girl hires a tramp to be the family butler and finds that he is a millionaire incognito."@en
"In this screwball comedy about the Depression, one of the community of 'forgotten men' living on the city dump is fortuitously given the opportunity to become the butler for an eccentric, upper crust family. The family members dizzyingly contrast with each other. They finally achieve some kind of maturity, each through an ambivalent relationship with Godfrey whose own past is gradually revealed."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler."
"An heiress and her family hire a tramp to be their butler. They discover he is just as wealthy as they are."@en
"An heiress and her family hire a tramp to be their butler. They discover he is just as wealthy as they are."
"A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are."
"A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are."@en
"An eccentric heiress hires a hobo to be her family's butler, and he soon teaches them that money isn't everything."@en
"A millionaire's spoiled daughter invites a tramp to be the butler to their zany family. This crazy sophisticated comedy of the depression years stars the butler who teaches that money doesn't mean everything. (Seven Academy Award nominations, 1936)."@en
"Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) is a young heiress from a family of idly rich eccentrics who finds herself at the city dump due to a scavenger hunt. Once there she meets Godfrey (William Powell), a hobo who resides at the dump along with his fellow derelicts. Inspired by her meeting with Godfrey, Bullock brings him home and installs him as the family's new butler. While Godfrey finds himself surrounded by a family of lunatics, he sees them as kind people with a need for some direction. Complications arise for the new butler when the young heiress finds herself falling in love with him and issues from his past come to light."
"Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) is a young heiress from a family of idly rich eccentrics who finds herself at the city dump due to a scavenger hunt. Once there she meets Godfrey (William Powell), a hobo who resides at the dump along with his fellow derelicts. Inspired by her meeting with Godfrey, Bullock brings him home and installs him as the family's new butler. While Godfrey finds himself surrounded by a family of lunatics, he sees them as kind people with a need for some direction. Complications arise for the new butler when the young heiress finds herself falling in love with him and issues from his past come to light."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and finds that he is richer than they are."@en
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and finds that he is richer than they are."
"Carole Lombard plays the "screwball" heiress Irene Bullock who finds the tramp Godfrey (William Powerll) on a scavenger hunt. Godfrey is the winner of the hunt and agrees to be taken to home to become the family's butler. The family has no idea that Godfrey is wealthier than them as he endeavours to teach them that money isn't everything."
"A zany rich girl hires Powell as her households butler and find that he is ra millionaire incognito."@en
""This madcap, romantic romp is one of the finest screwball comedies of them all. Carole Lonbard is a party girl who finds a tramp during a society scavenger hunt and hires him as a butler for her wacky family ... never knowiwng that he is richer than she is! William Powell is the very model of sophisticated comedy as the 'butler' who teaches them that money isn't everything"--Container."
"A spoiled rich girl hires an unemployed homeless man as her butler and discovers he is more than he appeared to be."@en
"An eccentric society girl hires a tramp as a butler with humorous results as he teaches her that money isn't everything."
"A Depression-era comedy about a rich girl who collects a hobo in order to win a scavenger hunt. She then wangles him a job as the family butler--not realizing that he is also wealthy and has been living as a hobo from choice."@en
""Depression-era comedy about a gentleman who was impoverished by the crash but was then hired by a socialite as her family butler. He and the socialite fall in love and change her family's way of life"--Container."
"[Meet John Doe]: John, an everyday guy who is so fed up with the way people are treating each other, that he plans to kill himself on Christmas Eve --just to prove a point."