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My man Godfrey [dvd videorecording]
Title:
My man Godfrey [dvd videorecording]
Author:
La Cava, Gregory, 1892-1952, film director, film producer.
ISBN:
9781681435008
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unnumbered pages ; folded ; 18 cm.)
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 114.
Criterion collection ; 114.
General Note:
Title and credits from screen.
Based on the novel by Eric Hatch.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936.
1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Special features: The La Cava touch: new piece about the film with jazz and film critic Gary Giddins; Effortless art: new discussion about director Gregory La Cava with critic Nick Pinkerton; outtakes; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1938, starring actors William Powell, Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, and Mischa Auer; newsreels from the thirties documenting the class divide during the Great Depression; outtakes; trailer; an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme.
Abstract:
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler ... but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man"-- an apparent down-and-out drifter-- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Added Author:
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