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...... (Full plot summary below)
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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...
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| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillWhile My Man Godfrey is full of witty dialogue and classical direction, it's the film's social awareness that really stands out today. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenHugely popular in its day, this is witty romantic comedy with barbed social commentary. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOne of the treasures of 1930s screwball comedy. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceGregory La Cava's warm and giddy carousel, a raucous burlesque with a beautiful still center, a lighter and tarter savior fable than Capra's concurrent transmutations of the Gospels |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrGregory La Cava's improvisational style received its highest critical acclaim for this 1936 film, a marginally Marxist exercise in class confusion during the Depression. |
| Decent Films GuideSteven D. GreydanusThe ultimate Depression-era satire of the idle rich and tribute to the noble poor. This popular theme was never more devastatingly realized than in this opening sequence… |
| Slant MagazineJake ColeLa Cava’s supple but cutting romantic comedy is one of the finest works of class-conscious comedy in Hollywood history. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayOne of the first and still among the best of the '30s screwball comedies, My Man Godfrey serves up absurdist romance and light social commentary in a fizzy mix that benefits from director Gregory La Cava's willingness to indulge improvisation, a trait he acquired from friend and frequent collaborator W.C. Fields. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThis scintillating comedy was the first film to be Oscar-nominated in all four acting categories. |
| Village VoiceHazel-Dawn DumpertIn one of her greatest roles, as burbling blonde heiress Irene Bullock in Gregory La Cava’s 1934 screwball masterpiece My Man Godfrey, Lombard creates a ditz so rare, a creature so otherwordly in her oblivion to what others call reality, that she comes off less as a thing of flesh and blood than as a shimmering cloud of butterflies flying in perfect, girl-shaped formation. |
