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    My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly...
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    My Man Godfrey is a 1957 American CinemaScope comedy film starring June Allyson and David Niven. It was adapted by Peter Berneis, William Bowers and Everett...
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    for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times: for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and Life with Father (1947). Powell was born in Pittsburgh...
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    (1950), The Moon Is Blue (1953), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), My Man Godfrey (1957), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Murder by Death (1976), and Death...
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    Studios to star in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936). William Powell, who was playing the eponymous Godfrey, insisted on her being cast as the female...
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    of different social classes, as in It Happened One Night (1934) and My Man Godfrey (1936). What sets the screwball comedy apart from the generic romantic...
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    the game show What's My Line? as the "mystery challenger." Her film appearances during this era included a remake of My Man Godfrey, Gigi, and It Started...
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    than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, notably My Man Godfrey (1936), Stage Door (1937), and My Favorite Wife (1940). After retiring from acting, she...
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  • performance was unjustified due to the short length of her role in the film. My Man Godfrey became the first film to receive nominations in all four acting categories...
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    satirized in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey, where one of the items socialite players are trying to collect is a "Forgotten Man", a homeless person. Scavenger...
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    of Italian descent best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best...
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    Supporting Actor in 1936 for his performance in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, which led to further zany comedy roles. He later moved into television...
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    six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character...
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    1935 Scandals (1935) at Fox. She then went to Universal Studios for My Man Godfrey (1936). Jane Wyman signed her first contract with Warner Bros.in 1936...
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    Interlude, a drama for Douglas Sirk, and My Man Godfrey, a comedy with David Niven. She then made A Stranger in My Arms (1958) with Jeff Chandler. The box...
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  • every acting category, and the second not to win any of them (after My Man Godfrey in 1936). Nominations announced on February 12, 1951. Winners are listed...
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    in 1929 in The Lady Lies and appeared in 11 other films, including My Man Godfrey, before her final studio film, Holiday (1938), which starred Edward...
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  • Three of the nominated films failed to win any of the four awards: My Man Godfrey (1936) – also failed to win any other Academy Awards Sunset Boulevard...
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    comedy with Van Johnson, and as Cornelia Bullock in the 1957 remake of My Man Godfrey with David Niven. In 1958, Hyer appeared in a Playhouse 90 televised...
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    such as Alexander Bullock (Carole Lombard's character's father) in My Man Godfrey (1936), Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and his similar...
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  • January 20, 2016. But remember the underlying works may still be copyrighted "My Man Godfry". Stanford University Copyright Renewal Database. Archived from the...
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    number of critics find the plot of the film is similar to the 1936 film My Man Godfrey. Merrily We Live was extremely successful and garnered five Oscar nominations...
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    in a shanty outfitted with a skylight. In My Man Godfrey, a 1936 screwball comedy, "Forgotten man" Godfrey Smith (played by William Powell) is living...
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    Battleground, Give My Regards to Broadway, Excuse My Dust, Island in the Sky, The Benny Goodman Story, Kelly and Me, Joe Butterfly, My Man Godfrey (1957), I Bury...
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    Princess Beatrix The Girl He Left Behind Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer 1957 My Man Godfrey Angelica Bullock 1958 I Married a Woman Mrs. Blake, Janice's Mother...
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  • 1101 Park Avenue, (which became a hit film in 1936 under the title My Man Godfrey) and The Year of the Horse (which was adapted as a Disney comedy with...
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  • was broadcast by CBS Radio. Mrs. Miniver was the second film (after My Man Godfrey in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well...
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    on the Wind (1956) as Jasper Hadley Men in War (1957) as The Colonel My Man Godfrey (1957) as Alexander Bullock The Lineup (1958) as Julian Tempest (1958)...
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    In the film My Man Godfrey (1936) a Boston Brahmin is mistaken for a tramp when frivolous socialites are looking for a "forgotten man" in a scavenger...
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    variety of films, including The Virgin Queen (1955) starring Bette Davis, My Man Godfrey (1957) with David Niven and June Allyson, Woody Allen's comedy Everything...
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