Carol Lombard (1908 -1942) died far too young at 33 during a plane crash which happened when it was returning from a war bonds selling tour. Her co-star in this movie was William Powell (1892 - 1984) had previously been her first husband (1931 - 1933) and it was clear proof that their separation and divorce was amicable and they remain friends for life. This movie which was a smash hit earned six Oscar nominations including Best Actor/Best Actress nominations for the two stars although none were successful. Lombard married matinee star leading man Clark Gable (1901 - 1960) in 1939. She made her name acting in screwball, energetic comedies and her appearance in such a comedy Twentieth Century in 1934 confirmed her popularity in this genre. Her efforts to move into more serious roles towards the end of her life were unsuccessful so she returned to her traditional roles. This movie was remade in 1957 with David Niven (1910 - 1983) and June Allyson (1917 - 2006) in the leading roles but it was nowhere near as successful. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her as 23rd on the list of Greatest Female Stars.

@adcsevilla

Жыл бұрын

Magnífica información, muchas gracias.

@russellgrenning1317

Жыл бұрын

@@adcsevilla Thank you😁

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Russell Greening - By "...American Film Institute named her as 23rd...", I assume you mean Carole Lombard and not June Allyson? [NOTE: Carole is spelled with an "e".]

@russellgrenning1317

Жыл бұрын

@@MossyMozart Yes. I did mean Miss Lombard. (NOTE: Grenning is spelt (NOT spelled) GRENNING)🤠

@sararichardson737

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the back story❤

The father had the best lines. He was very funny!

No one could touch the classiness of William Powell

@jc4388

4 ай бұрын

Jean Harlow tried but couldn't.

I am so in love with these old movies

@rosalbag.vieira4362

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@emmetsweeney9236

Жыл бұрын

They just don't make them like that anymore.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@@emmetsweeney9236 - Well, maybe not (poor Carole Lombard - dying so young), but there are fine comedies made today, too. I love all the films that I think are good. You may think that others are good. Variety & diversity are spices to life!

@naveenchandrapathak9274

Жыл бұрын

I am in the Process😂

@dkcorderoyximenez3382

11 ай бұрын

I could watch movies like this, non-stop...

I am fascinated with the costume design this movie designed by Travis Banton and Edith Head. Everything is so Art Deco and Streamline Moderne

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Dan R - Lombard's dress in the opening scenes was so beautiful. Of course, it could only have been purchased by a family that thought they were rich, as in this film, with ALL THAT BEADING! But it sure made a gorgeous, shimmery image without looking like a skimpy slip that was about to fall off. -------- So many people overlook the importance of costuming in character development.

@barryclay9084

4 ай бұрын

Edith Head IS costumes.

Around 88 years since it was made and still one of my favourites.

One of my favourite parts is when the crowd calls for a speech and Godfrey says: "My purpose for coming here tonight was twofold. Firstly I wanted to aid this young lady. Secondly I was curious to see how a bunch of empty-headed nitwits conducted themselves." Someone's voice from the crowd says "The man's perfect, I wanted to say that all night, but I didn't have the nerve."

@fireballxl-5748

7 ай бұрын

Truly one of the great lines in the entire movie. I felt the same.

@annastinehammersdottir1290

21 күн бұрын

A sign that this film has a top-notch screenplay.

“Prosperity’s just around the corner.” “Yeah, it’s been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner!” Such great lines!

@CultCinemaClassics

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@fireballxl-5748

7 ай бұрын

And it was in keeping with the actual times of the era. Politicians were saying that line over and over.

One of the great sophisticated comedies of the 1930s, and my favourite film of all time.

The only film in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for all four acting categories, best direction and best screenplay but NOT get a best picture nomination.

@annastinehammersdottir1290

4 ай бұрын

The fate of many excellent comedy films to not be taken seriously enough for the big prize.

One of my favorites. William Powell was a great actor. The Thin Man movies were some of his very best.

A classic without any doubt. The golden age of Hollywood. RIP

An absolute all time classic

My Man Godfrey is one of the my top five movies! I try to watch it four or five time a year! I never tire of it even though I know what's going to happen! Carol Lombard & William Powell put on quite the show! I have always liked William Powell & Myrna Loy in the thin man series but My Man Godfrey is even better!

One of the best movies ever made! I never get tired of it.

I saw this so many years ago in my youth, and than I saw the remake in my mid twenties. I forgot how funny this was till now. I love old films from before I was born.

Urbane and class defined - the only way to characterize William Powell in this comedy who holds the centerpiece and momentum of this story as the other charactors perform in his orbit. He was my fathers favorite actor and now, after seeing movies, new and old, spanning almost 90 years of show biz, I have to say he is probably my favorite. The only one I still haven't seen is "Life with Father. " There isn't another like Powell or Grant today that can carry a movie with such sublime grace and agile poise. RIP Godfrey...

The opening credits alone are so enticing. Like Omar 94 said an absolute all time classic. ♥️🌟

I just love screwball comedies! The snappy repartee from Jean Dixon as Molly the maid is priceless! Carole Lombard at her rapid fire speech best!

@electronixTech

10 ай бұрын

Molly is great. I liked the zingers she threw out at the investigating cop.

@loriforges6304

7 ай бұрын

Try watching miss Pettigrew lives for a day for this kind of fast-paced dialogue. It's a modern movie, but it was supposed to be set in 1939.

This movie is freaking HILLARIOUS! What a witty ride. The Dad's jokes are so funny. Great writing. Blocking. Characters. A+

The opening credits are brilliant.

@greekveteran2715

11 күн бұрын

When it comes to movies, the older the better!!!!

Carole Lombard's Irene characterization is amazing.

Whoever wrote the lines for Molly, gave her some awesome words to say

@fireballxl-5748

7 ай бұрын

I think you're correct. In fact, the entire movie is so well written and the acting is superb! Writing and presentation, including Powell's acting just a bit more drunk than he actually was in the pearl scene. Done so well that one actually feels like they are right there in the room with everyone in every scene.

@loge10

5 ай бұрын

I love Molly... Jean Dixon is wonderful in "Holiday" as well (another great movie).

@jamesgoines7663

5 ай бұрын

Have to find Holiday

@loge10

5 ай бұрын

​@@jamesgoines7663It's available in full on KZread.

This has to be one the most well written comedies I've ever watched. Wonderfully entertaining movie.

They don’t know how to make em like this anymore. “Stand still Godfrey, it’ll all be over in a minute.”

This is bonkers, nuts, crazy, hilarious and one of my favourite films. I watch it every now and again to cheer myself up.

It’s amazing that this was filmed 3 years before my mother was born and I’m 60!

THIS IS A TRUE GENUINE CLASSIC MOVIE THAT I HAVE WATCHED SO MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS ( THAT I NEVER EVER GET TIRED OF SEEING)🙂

@CultCinemaClassics

8 ай бұрын

@rudycortez-tv3ro So glad you can find it here and enjoy over and over again! Thanks for your comment!

@joebudi5136

3 ай бұрын

I never heard of this movie. My goodness ITS SO WITTY AND FUNNY!! I'm half way through. I'm laughing out loud.

@kahnlives

3 ай бұрын

@@joebudi5136I heard of this film for years, just got around to watching it a few weeks back.

A marvelous classic film - the best the Twentieth Century had to offer! American films made in the earlier part of the 1900's have a special magic like no other era. Even those called "screwball comedies" like this one always included a moral message to learn from. This film featured William Powell and Carole Lombarde in their heyday, it was simple fun with real love - such a pleasure to sit down and lose yourself in it to get away from the problematic stark realities going on in our world that are bringing us all down today in 2023. Both Powell and Lombarde were great actors. We lost Carole Lombarde so tragically far too soon, and we lost a Golden Child when the plane accident took her life in her prime. Thank you Cult Cinema Classics for uploading this film and sharing it with us all for free here on KZread.

This is a movie with a lesson of making one's way back from reproach. Great acting

I thoroughly enjoy this film every time I come across it! It’s message is timeless.

Watched this wonderful movie last night on TCM, and now I’m lucky to come across it once again on KZread . I’m going to subscribe to your podcasts to catch up on some of the oldies I may have missed. Normal tv shows have almost become a thing of the past for me because of my addiction to the Classics.😊 I watch at least one classic movie a night which lifts my spirits and helps me forget the world troubles for those two hours. Thank you for sharing these movies with all of us.

Superb film production. The dialogue alone is superlative. Don't make 'em like dat no mo'.

Wow, what a great print! This film has so many scratch up blurry poor quality prints, it’s fantastic to see this clearly, crisply. So lush. Thanks for posting!!

@JolsefaMartinezToled

11 ай бұрын

Quelle merveille! Les dialogues: un régal d'humour, d'esprit de la répartie le tout mené de main de mètre vers une conclusion où le protagoniste se retrouve piégé dans un torrent d'amour malgré lui. 😂

Fun Trivia: Eugene Pallette who acted as Alexander is just 3 yr elder to William Powell (Godfrey) And Alice Brady who acted as mother of the two ladies is younger than William Powell Carole Lombard who acted as younger sibling to Gail Patrick is actually 3 yrs elder to her in real life. and Carole Lombard has divorced William Powell 3 yrs before this movie got released and in this movie she is supposed to act that she has fallen head over heels to him.

@annastinehammersdottir1290

4 ай бұрын

Lombard and Powell remained friendly and in fact he recommended her for the part and he was most insistent. He knew she was perfect for it and it's obvious that they still had chemistry.

Such a beautiful movie. David Niven and June Allyson were just too good. It seems à theatral performance ❤❤❤

There's so much realism in this movie, especially the scene where Irene places money in Godfrey's pocket.

One of my favorite movies, since watching it at gramma's house as youngling.

one of my comfort movies! ive probably watched it more than 20x

This is the best quality print of the film I have seen on KZread. Nice, and kudos for the black and white.

So many movies, but I still seem to come back to this one at least once a year.

I'm not going to be happy when I run out of William Powell movies to watch🙁

One of my favourite old time movies next to bringing up baby and the Philadelphia story. William Powell is really exquisite❤

Thank you CCC. KEEP THE COMEDIES ROLLING

A bloody good film and well worth watching, thanks

I love Old Hollywood!! Sometimes I wish I was born in early 20th century…Now my oldest son loves old films like these or cartoons we watched

Thank you for this. I've heard so much about it over the years and now I know why. Such a wonderful movie, smart, sassy and classy. Very much appreciate your sharing it with me/us. 💖

Thanks so much for this wonderful quality upload. If all 1930s movies were shown on youtube in this quality there would be no point in going to see the trash called 2023 movies in the cinemas !

Que locura de familia!! Que buenos diálogos! Que gran actor WILLIAM POWELL, que deliciosa película, gracias por poder ver esta obra de arte de comedia

This is such an excellent movie, terrific actors & actresses & sets, & story. Top Notch choice!! 🎩👍

A perfect film in every way.

Excellent cast ... Don't forget Margaret Leighton playing Milly...she's very good.

Here I am watching a movie from 87 years ago on my flat screen 📱 iphone. People would laugh at you if you went back to 1936 and repeated this.

For over 20 years I have been trying to figure out what fabric Carol Lombard is wearing in the first scene. I still have no idea what kind of fabric that is. It's absolutely breathtaking.

@laurahoward5426

9 ай бұрын

SATIN

@SBCBears

8 ай бұрын

I'm with you. I'm not as old as this movie, but I'm old enough to have seen lots of fabrics. It seems like some kind of polished synthetic fiber. It is too flexible to be lamé. I don't recall seeing anything like it. I think Laura is right, it is an uncommon type of satin. I googled satin and think it may be messaline or baronet satin.

@Sunshine-zm1fx

8 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! I appreciate the research you did on my behalf. @@SBCBears

@nildesperandum3

8 ай бұрын

It's chiffon beaded with bugle beads.

What a classic! So hilarious yet meaningful.

Love this movie and William Powell.

100 times I can watch this movie and 100 times I'm in heaven

😂😂😂👍 a classic, funny movie. It deserved all the academy awards.

@laurahoward5426

9 ай бұрын

It did not win ANY Academy Awards

ojala haya más gente recuperando películas a KZread para que no se pierdan estás joyas

@CultCinemaClassics

8 ай бұрын

@alejandrosilva5856 Aquí en nuestro canal tenemos miles de joyas! Te dejo Películas dobladas en español kzread.info/head/PL2gsu7VGzgdYB6OvgFtXpfBLL_7XTMVAW

A real shame those two couldn't keep it together in real life. The characters they played were awesome.

excellence from a bygone era. thanks for preserving! has nobody noticed how beautiful Gail Patrick was ?

Everything about this film is perfection.

Opening credits excellent

Such a simpler time. Back when we were truly living, or striving to make a better life for ourselves. It's sad knowing that everyone in this, and involved in its production is now dead. Oh, imagine all the stories their graves could tell. Long live the cinema! ❤

One of the great movies of all time!

“Oh, everybody knows about it, except Godfrey.” 😂🤣😂🤣

This movie is EXCELLENT ❤

Such a wonderful old film! Thank you!

Oh, it’s so silly to think of Godfrey wearing a pearl necklace 😂😂😂😂

Lucille Ball must have studied Carole Lombard's performance in this film like a book for her "I Love Lucy" character. This is funny stuff!

I'm in tears..as I am every time I see this spécial movie

I'm no critic. It's just a fun movie. I enjoyed it. 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

What a relief to get away from politics for a few hours and re watch a new old movie again and at 74 i need some extended escapes like this.

I have enjoyed every bit of this movie. Its timeless.

delizioso. Un film che ti cambia l'umore in meglio. Bisognerebbe domandarsi perché i film di oggi siano fatti di volgarità, violenza e tutto quello che possa scatenare traumi. grazie x la condivisione

Carol Lombard and William Powell were married but had been divorced for about 3 years when they made My Man Godfrey. Obviously they had an amicable divorce as Carol would reminisce that they married as lovers and divorced as great friends. She would marry Clark Gable within 3 years of this film but perish in a plane crash in Mount Pelosi when she was 33. She was known as the Queen of the Screwball Comedies. On The Twentieth Century was the film that launched her on this marvelous and wondrous journey. Thankfully!!!🎉🎉🎉

5 mins 47 sec's : Isn't that silvery dress material gorgeous ! That's all ! Thank you ! ☺️ (Have seen this film before, but remembered it was well done, so will watch again☺️). 🇬🇧💕🇺🇲🐦☺️🥀🦉🌈🌿🇺🇲🇬🇧.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Rosemarie Mann - The outfit was heavily beaded (many of thousands all applied by hand) - it must have weighed a ton and cost a fortune. But it certainly does look gorgeous. In film and theater, costumes are used to depict character development - rich, beautiful, stands out against the background of squalor, modest, a degree of innocence, enthralling.

Love anything with William Powell

Film delizioso e con sani principi!!!❤....grazie per avermi fatto trascorrere un pomeriggio delizioso!!

I forgot how good this was.

Has there ever been more legitimate romantic chemistry between 2 divorced actors (Powell and Lombard) in any Hollywood film? I can't think of one. BTW, if there was ever a manic pixie dreamgirl, it's Carole Lombard in this movie.

They were wonderful, I miss those wonderful actors and actresses. I'm gladbi was born 1941.

Love this movie and "all the actors and actress's", it has an expectable cast of talent!😎

Truly one of the best comedies ever!

Timeless.

These times seem so lovely. Love this movie

@marcopolo9146

Жыл бұрын

Not sure “these times seem so lovely”.. The first 15 minutes is a shocking indictment of the cruelty of those times ... rich people playing games with the poor. The movie starts in a garbage heap. It is one of my favourite movies of all time but it is not a piece of fluff.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@@marcopolo9146 - Concur. This film has a happy ending for the Forgotten Men, but reality seldom does for the abject poor.

@tommoncrieff1154

Жыл бұрын

@@marcopolo9146Yes. They were just coming out of the Great Depression, Hitler and Stalin were on the rise and WW2 was around the corner. I think this movie doesn’t try to disguise the desperation of the poor and the detachment of the wealthy, it’s basically what it’s about.

Puts these current movies to shame!

One of my top ten or twelve favorites. I never tire of watching it.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. So many classic lines from’ you’re my responsibility’ to ‘naturally I had to take an attitude’.

Ho visto solo dieci minuti ma mi sono bastati per sapere che è un film veramente bello

One of my absolute favorites.

Thank you this is the one I was looking for I love this movie always 🙏🌟👍

One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the posting! 😊❤

1) Loved the bit about the horse in the library.🐎☺️. 2) 45 mins : It must have been fun to play "Angelica Bullock" ☺️. 🇬🇧💕🇺🇲🦉🇬🇧💕🇺🇲.

Ah, che bel classico della satira umoristica! Doppiato - anche se con qualita' sonora migliorabile, ma meglio di niente - e di ottima qualita' d'immagine. Una commedia borghese leggera ma non stupida degli anni Trenta, che ammicca ai problemi profondi del lavoro e della dignita' umana, del rispetto, dell'ingiustizia del mercato capitalistico senza fare proclami o tessere drammi. Una pellicola intelligente che, facendo ridere il pubblico, suggerisce tanti contenuti profondi. Cosi' si parla: le rivolte esplicite sono falo' che presto divengono cenere, le verita' sussurrate RESTANO. Bella pellicola, umana, simpatica e "seria" che, come Arlecchino, ridendo castiga i costumi.

Que placer ...está película es un tesoro. Todavía no la termino de ver. ❤

In a perfect world William Powell would be MY sweetie!

@CultCinemaClassics

9 ай бұрын

@hermajesty52 😍😍

Filme excelente!! Nos faz esquecer as tragédias atuais.

@AngelaCadnum-ue8ic

8 ай бұрын

❤❤

How absolutely delightful! 🤗

Loved this film. So glad i found it here