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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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    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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    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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    (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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    the Table (1935, forming a popular partnership with Fred MacMurray); My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    some critics found the plot of the film similar to the 1936 movie My Man Godfrey. Merrily We Live was extremely successful and garnered five Oscar nominations...
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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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    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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    that "duplicates" are "those five kids up in Canada". In the 1936 film My Man Godfrey, Angelica Bullock, played by Alice Brady, references the Dionne quintuplets...
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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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    Forgotten Faces (1936) as Nurse Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936) as Matron My Man Godfrey (1936) as Mrs. Merriweather (uncredited) Dodsworth (1936) as Ship Passenger...
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  • acting nominations but not one for Best Picture, tying the record set by My Man Godfrey in 1936. Two more films to date have tied this record: Othello (1965)...
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  • 1936 – Modern Times, Swing Time, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Flash Gordon, My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld, Come and Get It, Romeo and Juliet, Camille 1937...
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    steadily, appearing in over 120 films including the Oscar-nominated My Man Godfrey (1937). In the 1950s, Mowbray's film roles decreased, and he began to...
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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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    Boulevard is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being My Man Godfrey (1936) and American Hustle (2013). At the time its eleven Oscar nominations...
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  • which Russell also directed. Of the fifteen such films, it joins only My Man Godfrey and Sunset Boulevard to not win any acting awards. The film took top...
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    Gerard Kenny and Kristi Kane in London on a musical version of the film My Man Godfrey. He had also received an urgent call from Andrew Lloyd Webber, asking...
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    film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936). Original lithograph copies of his poster art are scarce and...
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