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	My Man Godfrey - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times
		One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey (William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump.
		Godfrey becomes the family's butler, much to the dismay of Irene's father Alexander (Eugene Pallette), who thinks his household is crazy enough without another apparent lunatic under his roof.
		While Godfrey's ultimate "solution" to the exigencies of the Depression seems more of a placebo, My Man Godfrey is all in all a totally satisfying jolt of 1930s-style wish fulfillment.
	movies.nytimes.com /movie/34089/My-Man-Godfrey/overview (258 words)

	My Man Godfrey: Criterion (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down and out "forgotten man" as their butler.
		My Man Godfrey features brilliant performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell and was the first film to receive Academy Award® nominations in all four acting categories.
		My Man Godfrey suffered from an awkward and forced ending, but otherwise I thought it was a fun and frisky little comedy.
	www.dvdmg.com /mymangodfrey.shtml (2273 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - My Man Godfrey (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Godfrey is such a man who has been down on his luck and yet as displayed by his attitude towards Cornelia still has a shed of dignity in him.
		Godfrey on the one hand is able to face up to the challenge, denying Cornelia of what she wants most.
		Godfrey's early comment of "proserity is just around the corner" is an ironic and at the same time timed line because of what will happen to Godfrey for the rest of the film.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=9087 (2332 words)

	DVD Review - My Man Godfrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among the best of the screwball comedies is Gregory La Cava’s 1936 hit, "My Man Godfrey." The queen of the screwballs, Carole Lombard, stars as Irene Bullock, a rich society girl with her heart in the right place but her head in the clouds.
		"My Man Godfrey" offers up a fairy tale version of New York in which the rich are somewhat goofy, but generally well-meaning, and the poor are well-spoken and just waiting to catch a break.
		"My Man Godfrey" is presented in its original full frame aspect ratio and the folks at Criterion have done a fine restoration job on this 65-year-old classic.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/my_man_godfrey.shtml (1076 words)

	DVD Review: My Man Godfrey (Criterion Collection)
		"My Man Godfrey", a 1936 picture, is one of the many that Allen seemed to be inspired by for his most recent picture, "Curse of the Jade Scorpion".
		Also, aside from all of the wonderful elements of "My Man Godfrey", I still remain amazed by the beautiful opening credits, which are remarkably well-done and lively for the age.
		VIDEO: "My Man Godfrey" is presented in the film's original 1.33:1 full_frame aspect ratio from Criterion.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/mymangodfreyccdvd.html (923 words)

	My Man Godfrey (1936)
		— Alexander Bullock (Eugene Pallette) in My Man Godfrey
		William Powell plays the melancholic "Forgotten Man," Godfrey Smith, living on the edge of the East River in New York City, when the rich and effervescent Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) and her bratty older sister, Cornelia (Gail Patrick) arrive, looking to acquire a hobo to win a scavenger-hunt trophy at a party.
		My Man Godfrey is a hilarious, wacky but insightful trip back to Hollywood's Golden Age and a testament that entertainment need not be dunderheaded to be pleasurable.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1002&PID=10092056&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (968 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: My Man Godfrey
		Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue.
		Godfrey, on the other hand, whose name means "God's Freedom," purposely shackles himself to this family in a slave-like position, whom they take full advantage of.
		In My Man Godfrey, that central heart is provided by the unconditionally good and good-hearted butler character (Godfrey, the "my man" of the title) played by William Powell.
	www.archive.org /details/my_man_godfrey (2411 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- MY MAN GODFREY
		After Godfrey helps her win the scavenger hunt, as well as taking her spoiled sister down a couple of pegs, Irene decides to hire her "forgotten man" as the new family butler.
		However, after accepting the position, Godfrey quickly discovers the he and the maid are the last vestiges of sanity inside the "eccentric" Bullock household.
		MY MAN GODFREY is properly framed at 1.33:1, and despite being nearly seven decades old; the movie looks incredible on DVD.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd2/reviews/my-man-godfrey-dvd.htm (725 words)

	My Man Godfrey (1936) - Review - Piddleville
		The crowning achievement in the hunt is to return with a "lost man," someone who is out-of-work and homeless due to the Depression (presumeably).
		He goes with Irene, she wins the hunt, Godfrey gets to express his opinion of what kind of people the wealthy are and then...
		But Godfrey's presence has a calming influence, to a small degree, as he is the one voice of reason and understanding.
	www.piddleville.com /DigitalMovies/Review250_Godfrey.htm (766 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		My Man Godfrey (1936) is about a bum, a "forgotten man" who becomes a butler for a wildly rich and stir-crazy household.
		The director of My Man Godfrey - Gregory La Cava - may not be as well known today as some of his contemporaries like Howard Hawks, George Cukor or Preston Sturges, but, like them, he found his own course to freedom within the studio system.
		In 1957, Universal-International remade My Man Godfrey with June Allyson and David Niven in the lead roles but it was a pale imitation of the original film.
	turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,67221\|69801\|62614,00.html (631 words)

	My Man Godfrey (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		My Man Godfrey is a classic ensemble film with Carole Lombard and William Powell at the helm.
		Powell's Godfrey matches her step for step, and Powell does one better by showing us depth in his character rather than play straight man to her every madcap move.
		The film opens with a treasure hunt and one of the items to find is a forgotten man. The rich set out to the city dump to locate him with no regard for his plight or his dignity.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0028010 (595 words)

	My Man Godfrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The challenge of finding a "forgotten man" leads them to the same shanty city underneath a bridge where they each try to entice Godfrey, one of the homeless men, to return to the party with them as the last item to scavenger victory.
		Godfrey takes charge with a wisdom beyond his origins, tames the Bullock girls, and becomes indispensable to the family.
		The combination of droll William Powell as Godfrey, the forgotten man turned butler, and daffy Carole Lombard, as the rich girl who makes Godfrey her protégé is wonderful.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/my_man_godfrey.htm (546 words)

	My Man Godfrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey (William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump.
		Godfrey becomes the family's butler, much to the dismay of Irene's father Alexander (Eugene Pallette), who thinks his household is crazy enough without another apparent lunatic under his roof.
		While Godfrey's ultimate "solution" to the exigencies of the Depression seems more of a placebo, My Man Godfrey is all in all a totally satisfying jolt of 1930s-style wish fulfillment.
	www.johnroldan.com /videos/details/20207.html (206 words)

	My Man Godfrey (1936)
		The film was remade in 1957 with David Niven as the "forgotten man" and June Allyson (in her next-to-last film) as the Lombard character.
		Godfrey Smith/Parke (William Powell), a hobo who lives in the city dump, is unshaven and scruffy and dressed in tattered clothes - an old hat and coat.
		Into the scene of societal madness and confusion, Irene leads Godfrey by the hand, as he comments: "Are all these people hunters?...It sounds like a bankruptcy proceeding." The master of ceremonies asks Godfrey to stand up on a platform to speak.
	www.filmsite.org /myman.html (1377 words)

	My Man Godfrey - DVD Movie Central
		My Man Godfrey is part screwball comedy, part social commentary…a film that works because it inspires laughs and makes good solid points about a time that was the era of the Depression, but just as relevant today with our homeless issues.
		Godfrey’s new world is a far cry from his old one in every way imaginable…instead of dim surroundings and bright people, he’s surrounded by bright settings and dim people.
		Godfrey plays the role of servant as well as everyman…he is loyal and true, and situations are all the more funny because we see them through his eyes.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/my_man_godfrey.htm (841 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - My Man Godfrey: Criterion Collection
		My Man Godfrey was based on a novella entitled "1011 Fifth Avenue" written by Eric Hatch, who was a writer for The New Yorker magazine and would later pen the script for 1937's
		Godfrey proves to be more than a match for the Bullocks and he soon starts to solve many of the family's problems which in turn leads Godfrey himself onto the road to recovery.
		Godfrey even allows himself to be married to Irene at the end, although there has been no really strong foundation laid by the script that would make such a match the obvious conclusion to the film.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mymangodfrey.shtml (1679 words)

	My Man Godfrey (1936 b 93') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At a party Godfrey serves, and Tommy Gray (Alan Mowbray) says he knew Godfrey at Harvard, saying Godfrey has five children and causing Irene to announce her engagement to a fool.
		Godfrey meets Tommy and says he gave all he had to a woman but was saved by the men at the river.
		Irene broke her engagement and flirts with Godfrey while he washes dishes; but he says he had a bitter experience and is moving on.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1936/MyManGodfrey.html (446 words)

	DVD review of My Man Godfrey (Criterion) - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Godfrey agrees, but little does he know why several previous butlers have abandoned the job: the family are all nuttier than fruitcakes.
		Godfrey is looked upon in the same light as a family pet by everyone except Irene, who has fallen in love with him.
		Godfrey is really a well-born, well-educated, high-society type himself, whose family moves in the upper circles of Boston society.
	www.dvdtown.com /reviews/review.asp?id=7444&reviewid=774 (1630 words)

	DVD Savant Review: My Man Godfrey
		Godfrey, an erudite bum (William Powell) squatting on an East River ash-pile dumpsite, is picked up for a scavenger hunt by wealthy Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard), and taken back to the nuttiest family in Manhattan to try the role of butler on for size.
		My Man Godfrey is not particularly concerned with its own social consciousness, and revels in basic unlikelihoods that nevertheless seem wholly appropriate.
		Everyone is stridently honest in their selfish characters - Godfrey is something of a mystery, but we're impressed by his patience and ethics, qualities that most of the others never heard of.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s280godfrey.html (855 words)

	My Man Godfrey
		A wacky screwball comedy about a 'forgotten man' who is adopted as a butler by a young socialite and her family, when she finds him in the city dump, whilst on a scavenger hunt.
		My Man Godfrey is available on DVD as part of the Criterion collection, and on VHS.
		Regarded as a crime today, My Man Godfrey did not even get the nomination as the best film of the year.
	www.angelfire.com /film/robbed/godfrey.htm (574 words)

	Amazon.com: My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection: DVD: William Powell,Carole Lombard,Alice Brady,Gail Patrick,Eugene ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down-and-out "forgotten man" as their butler.
		My Man Godfrey features brilliant performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, and was the first film to receive Academy Award®; nominations in all four acting categories.
		She recruits him to be the "forgotten man" the scavenger hunt calls for and subsequently hires him as a butler.
	www.amazon.com /My-Man-Godfrey-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00005EBSE (1505 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: My Man Godfrey review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		My Man Godfrey is in the grand tradition of classic screwball comedy.
		Set during the aftermath of the early 20th century depression, William Powell plays Godfrey, a man with a checkered past living in a New York City waterfront dump.
		A true classic, My Man Godfrey is not to be missed by fans of the genre, students of film or anyone who appreciates grand screen comedy.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_3/mymangodfrey.html (970 words)

	My Man Godfrey
		I interviewed Godfrey recently, in his movie-memorabilia cluttered Manhattan apartment, about his passions, his past, present, and future exploits, and all the cinematic stuff in between.
		Godfrey Cheshire: I was interested in movies from the time I was a little kid.
		I do think that my chances of remaining in film criticism are somewhat up in the air at best because of the scarcity of places to write the kind of film criticism I like.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/godfrey.html (5019 words)

	My Man Godfrey (1936)
		Possibly the screwiest of all screwball comedies, My Man Godfrey is the ultimate Depression-era satire of the idle rich and tribute to the noble poor.
		Finding one of the sisters less condescendingly offensive than the other, Godfrey accompanies her back to the party, and winds up guardedly accepting a role in their sibling rivalry by becoming her "protégé" and the family butler.
		My Man Godfrey is social satire at its broadest; unlike Sullivan’s Travels there is no nuance in the picture of the rich as less worthy than the poor.
	stevendgreydanus.com /sections/reviews/1646 (258 words)

	my-man-godfrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Anyway, MY MAN GODFREY is comedy with a social conscience, although the message's subtlety has to be unearthed from all the humor.
		Two years later, a film inspired by this one, MERRILY WE LIVE, was released, but it and the flat 1957 remake of MY MAN GODFREY were inferior attempts at recreating the chemistry of this film.
		MY MAN GODFREY was nominated for six Oscars: Best Director, Actor (Powell), Actress (Lombard), Supporting Actor (Auer), Supporting Actress (Brady), and Original Screenplay [Eric Hatch (who wrote the short story the film was based on, "1101 Park Avenue'), Morris Ryskind].
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/m/my-man-godfrey.html (376 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: My Man Godfrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Godfrey is immediately thrust straight into the heart of a fierce sibling rivalry between Irene and her snotty sister Cordelia (Martha Hyer).
		She sees Godfrey as her chance at a real life and clings to her fantasies of their life together with fierce determination.
		It is her conviction that she and Godfrey are meant for each other that drives the film.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302968232 (721 words)

	dOc DVD Review: My Man Godfrey (1936)
		Spruced up in a rented suit, Godfrey finds himself much more dignified and intelligent than the remainder of the family, which is full of goofiness, drunkenness, venality and generally whacked out personalities.
		Powell is perfect as the bitter forgotten man making a new life for himself as a dapper butler.
		Carole Lombard is engaging as the utterly dippy blonde Irene with an endless patter of lovesick nonsensical babble.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1407 (1106 words)

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