CinemaLit: My Man Godfrey (1936) – 93 minutes

Fri Sep 16 2022 at 06:00 pm to 09:30 pm

Mechanics' Institute | San Francisco

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CinemaLit: My Man Godfrey (1936) \u2013 93 minutes
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William Powell is a down-and-outer plucked from an ash heap and hired as butler to an eccentric wealthy family.
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September 16 – My Man Godfrey, 1936, 93 minutes, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard

Any short list of "Screwball Comedy" has to include My Man Godfrey. Carole Lombard plays a flighty society woman from a family so screwy, they "seem to have been dropped on their respective heads when young," noted Variety. William Powell is a down-and-outer plucked from an ash heap and hired as butler to Lombard's wacky tribe. In the rollicking good fun that ensues, plenty of comment is made about the gross inequities in American life, with the frivolous rich folks getting their comeuppance of sorts. And – of course - somewhere in all the high jinks Lombard and Powell find time to fall in love.

CinemaLit / September 2022 – The 1930s Get Real

What are your impressions of American films in the 1930s? Gossamer musicals and Marx Brothers' slapstick? Stodgy romances burdened with wooden acting? Nonsense escapism from the Great Depression? That's all to be found. But dig deeper for a wealth of films of exceptional depth and complexity. September at CinemaLit is devoted to four films from four genres that are terrific entertainments AND fascinating historical and sociological relics. We've got a musical (Gold Diggers of 1933), screwball comedy (My Man Godfrey), comedy-drama (Politics), and social drama (Imitation of Life). And even as you're laughing or toe tapping, we've also got homelessness, political corruption, racism, bread lines, war, M**der, unemployment, sexism, and the generation gap. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.


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Mechanics' Institute, Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco, United States

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