Capital Celluloid 2020 – Day 6: Mon Jan 6

My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936): BFI Southbank, NFT 2, 6.10pm


This film (which also screens on January 3rd, 22nd and 26th) is part of the Carole Lombard season at BFI Southbank. You can find the full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Gregory La Cava's improvisational style received its highest critical acclaim for this 1936 film, a marginally Marxist exercise in class confusion during the Depression. Carole Lombard is the bubbleheaded heiress who needs an oppressed proletarian to round out a scavenger hunt; she picks up tramp William Powell and lets him stay on to be her butler. Meanwhile, mad poet Mischa Auer assumes the role of the intelligentsia under late capitalism by imitating a gorilla. With Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, and Gail Patrick.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.


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