Screwball’s “Forgotten Man”: Commentary on My Man Godfrey (1936 film)

Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org) founder Aliece Pickett & Lauren Wolfer discuss The “Forgotten Man” and the Queen of Screwball, Carole Lombard in the Screwball Comedy: My Man Godfrey (1936 film) and its “Forgotten Director” Gregory La Cave. It stars Carole Lombard, William Powell, and Gail Patrick.
Sources:
“Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava” by Gary Morris; (Bright Lights Film Journal, 2004).
Becoming Carole Lombard, Stardom, Comedy and Legacy, by Olympia Kiriakou (Bloomsbury, 2020).
The Art of Screwball Comedy, by Doris Milberg (McFarland, 2013).
You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, The American Talking Film, by Andrew Sarris (Oxford, 1998).
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby” (1928) Jimmy McHugh (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics); performed by Vaughn De Leath (1928).
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