Category: Romance
All Genres: Romance, Comedy
Release Year: 1936
Country: USA
Runtime: 94
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Gregory La Cava
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Hes Back... And Its About Time

Time waits for no man - except one.

Writing by: Eric Hatch - (novel)
Morrie Ryskind - (writer) &
Eric Hatch - (writer)
Gregory La Cava - uncredited
Robert Presnell Sr. - uncredited

Produced by: Gregory La Cava - producer
Charles R. Rogers - executive producer

Cast: 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
Ernie Adams - Forgotten man (uncredited)

Music: Charles Previn Rudy Schrager
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Plot Outline: A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler...but theres more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
Plot: 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 servants mysterious past...

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The opening credits features a darkened city skyline and the names of the cast and crew appear as the camera pans across lighted billboards and neon signs.

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Godfrey is placing roses in a vase while ignoring Irene. In one shot, he has already placed five stems in the vase. The camera cuts away to the rest of the cast but when Godfrey is seen again, there is only one rose in the vase.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• This was the first film to ever receive four acting nominations at the Academy Awards, and it did so in the year that the supporting categories were introduced.
• A stand-in (Chick Collins) was used when William Powell carries Carole Lombard over his shoulder up the stairs to her bedroom.
• When "My Man Godfrey" was adapted and broadcast as an episode of the Lux Radio Theater on May 9, 1938, David Niven portrayed Tommy Gray. Niven would later star in the remake, My Man Godfrey (1957).

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