My Man Godfrey 1936 -William Powell & Carole Lombard Full Movie

[@13_13k]

This movie was so well made it is timeless. The script, acting, direction, sets, wardrobe, every department did a fantastic job. The first time watching this film was about 20 yrs ago when I was in my mid 30s and i've watched it four times since. It is one of my favorite films for so many reasons. Born and raised in Los Angeles and myself working in the film and television industry production, I appreciate the old films so much. That was an incredible era for Hollywood and the film industry. I would love to go back in time and spend a few months in L.A. to get a taste of that time compared to the L.A. I grew up with in the 1970s ,80s etc... . It must have been a beautiful wonderful place. It still is but it is too crowded and the woods and rivers and the rolling hills are mostly gone or developed. I wouldn't trade my life if I had the chance. But it would be nice to visit the past for a short time.

[@mortalclown3812]

Wonderful comment. Actor/writer myself, decades in TV/film. Of course, it's before our time, but brings a measure of hope somehow. Fwiw, I recall seeing this with my Grandfather not long before he passed away. It brought up a lot of memories of the Depression - and how they all managed.

[@13_13k]

@@mortalclown3812 --- thanks for your reply. The film does remain timeless in the basic morality and relationship dynamics between a family and outsiders being subjected to take part in that only partially by choice but out of necessity being the depression. It is a "thinking man's" comedy, but it is one of the original "romcom" films, but written and acted so much better than the romcoms in recent years other than When Harry Met Sally. On a different subject, I recently, a couple months ago, got to do some exterior lighting on what the owner's are calling "The Mack Sennett Studio" at Sunset near Fountain, which wasn't actually the real Sennett Studio which was on Glendale near Alvarado and is now a Public Storage business, but the other building was owned by and I think used a little by Sennett but was the studio run by his female partner and actress, very famous but I can't remember her name right now. Still, it is the oldest, I believe, original location film studio still in use as a film studio and sound stage. Walking through the interior of that building, est. 1916 or '19, was really amazing. The vibe in there was thick with the hustle of film crews and production pressures. They transformed part of the basement into a working Speakeasy that looks like it has been there since the '20s. It can be rented for parties or filming. One of the things that made me laugh was something that is so perfect from the silent film and pre WWII film era is the oversized (maybe 12 or 15 feet high and 10 or 12 feet wide stage door that is on the exterior stage wall and it is called The Elephant Door. LOL it makes perfect sense that it would be called The Elephant Door because no other prop or equipment would be that large back then to need such a large access entrance from the street directly onto the soundstage other than an elephant (I'm sure they used it for vehicles, pianos, etc...) and the visual in my mind made me laugh. That's one of the things I love about my job. I get to work in and on some of the most iconic, historic, amazing places around L.A. City, County, and surrounding areas being used as locations for film and or tv production. I digress, to the film that is the subject of this comment/conversation, I'll always consider this film as one of the best films ever made, written, acted, directed, and produced. It isn't an epic like Gone With The Wind or Citizen Cane, and other colossal films made over the years, but it is a film that became the benchmark for incredible dialogue in script writing, chemistry between actors, comedic timing that wasn't slapstick, a story that was set in real time not a period piece. It was serious by depicting the troubles that all Americans were dealing with, the Great Depression, but with the perfect amount of escapism that movies are supposed to give the viewers to forget about reality for a couple of hours. I didn't intend to write so much, it just sorta happened. I hope to get back to work the way it was before the plannedemic and then the strikes. Studio work was 70% of my business before these last 3 years. It's been very hard to pay the bills. I got a couple of days from a couple commercials and a couple days from a feature in the last six months, and less before that. So many people affected industry wide.

[@Vicki1951]

Your comment was very enjoyable to read. I’ve in Iowa most of my 73 years. I have an uncle who lived in California most of his life and he always called Iowa as The Area that Time Forgot. Lol. I suppose in some ways it still is. However, my parents loved to travel by car and we went to the area you described with my uncle. I was very young and I went to Disneyland shortly after it was opened in the 50’s. I enjoy these movies so much. There’s a couple more; Life with Father, The More the Merrier, Love in the Afternoon, His Girl Friday, Sabrina and I suppose there’s more. I know there were a great many difficulties then too but it’s great that people were still trying to do what they liked best and that was entertaining others. And…Oh, they did it magnificently!!!!

[@lynnefleming8614]

I love this movie 😂. It's one of my absolute favorites.

[@loriforges6304]

I have it on DVD, there was a remake in 1957 I think. If I didn't already love this one so much I might have liked it better.

[@ohkay7418]

What a delightful movie anything with William Powell but this is an extra special to see people actually caring about other people and learning to be better people

[@rocketscientisttoo]

One of the best. Not one weak performance and each actor complimented each other actor, including those with bit parts, which speaks very highly of the Director and of the caliber of all the actors in the movie.

[@dealstogo2649]

Great script and wonderful fun actors/actresses. They don't make movies as good as this any more.

[@LB-px9td]

This is such a cute movie. William Powell and Carol Lombard made this movie after they got divorced , but whatever happed between them, they still had great chemistry together.

[@m.st.6657]

They still remained great pals after their divorce!

[@christiansgrandma6812]

This was the first movie that got me hooked on TCM classics. It brings me back to those Saturday afternoons as a child.

[@karinwolf3645]

Me too!! 😁💞

[@eileenbickford8775]

Ive been watching this movie my whole life. I love it the same each time i watch it.

[@MegaDeansy]

Simply superb film !. Carole Lombarde is an absolute stand-out, she would've went on to become one of THE actresses of all-time had it not been for her far too early death - RIP you beautiful, funny gal xx

[@mwienzek]

What a great movie - I will need to watch it again to realize all of the many details. Thank you very much for sharing!

[@SophyaAgain]

I love love love this movie. I love love love William Powell and Carole Lombard. Thank you Harry, I don't get enough of watching this movie!

[@AbdulHameed-dd4ez]

😊...excellent movie! Highly recommended! The setting, the actors, and the plot were outstanding. I really liked the acting, it was entertaining and authenic.

[@LoriHastings-g2h]

I am recovering & in great pain my memory lowest however I am enjoying this movie

[@sherrihinton8567]

Thank you so much. I love William Powell

[@piehound]

Thank you so so much.

[@RetMarut22]

Thank you, Harry! What a wonderful collection. It's like beeing in a candy shop when I was a little boy. I love those classic american movies from the Golden Era. And this is definitely one of my all-time-favourites. Best regards, Peter.

[@foodstick]

We would be lucky if they made ONE movie a year this good !

[@11froglegs]

really?????

[@suebrubaker6182]

One on my all time favorite pair is will not take advantage of the stranger. This is the movie I fall in live with William Powell. Classic class satire.

[@adelaidaabrantes6199]

A great movie love it so much to learn about people.made me laugh but then i wanted to cry too.great actors .this is the second straight film i watch tonight ..of Mr.William Powell.sorry but my first to watch him..IOVE OLD MOVIES.THANKS

[@laurabrowning7973]

Thank you for showing us this great clean & crisp film; the details are so clear, it's simply amazing! William Powell was one of the most talented actors of the Golden Era. It's easy to see why he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for this performance! I am in awe of his acting in this, to watch his transformation from the 'forgotten man' to Godfrey Smith, butler, to Godfrey Smith, entrepreneur/philanthropist. It's such a subtle nuanced performance, Amazing! Thank you again!!

[@michaeljames3134]

This is Powell’s best performance Terrific

[@piehound]

His absolute best ?????????????? I liked him a lot as the ship's doctor in MISTER ROBERTS (1955)

[@ottojones3162]

Just watched this after first watching the remake from 1957 with June Alyson and David Niven. Both are excellent.

[@piehound]

Both are eggcellent. Except i think the Powell version is just a little more eggcellent.

[@loriforges6304]

When Godfrey asks Cornelia which corner, this one or that one, does anyone else wonder why, I feel I need director's comments or deleted scenes.

[@cookiesspirit2329]

This movie set is Art Deco Heaven.

[@axiomist4488]

"Stand still Godfrey, it'll all be over in a minute" . She's SO cute ! I saw this last night and now again and have seen it several other times in the past. Own the video from the Criterion Collection. It comes in black and white and colorized. I think for this film, the colorized version is better, since it's so colorful. In the first bedroom scene , when he wakes up the mother, her room is all golden with a beautiful gold satin headboard and it looks like a fairy tale . This was made 4 years after their divorce, but they were always such great friends, it didnt affect the acting. The view from the living room, of the 59th street bridge, is so amazing. This was 13 years before TV, when one could watch views and do something other than sit staring at a screen all night. People still lived life. I was born in '47, but I love these old 30s movies : they are so classy!

[@marypatten9655]

Thank you. Still just as enjoyable as the first time watching this video. My Man Godfry. Please share others. God bless

[@piehound]

Please don't FRY the daisies.

[@davidscott2962]

" everybody knows about it except Godfrey " Carole Lombard what a dear

[@michaeljames3134]

Thank you. This is great

[@piehound]

Pretty good video quality compared to some of the others available. BTW i thought it was spelled Geoffrey. I especially like the part where she asks him if he can BUBBLE. And his answer is priceless. Stray cats make the best BUBBLERS.

[@FishFeelPain]

Lost track of how many times i've seen this--TY

[@blacsouljah]

The 1930's women's fashions are the most beautiful of the 2oth century.

[@fairytaleworld777-v8]

cute movie xx very few movies like this xx

[@francinebarr1204]

One Of The Classics ❤

[@annekstrom3930]

How wonderful to see this movie , again!

[@carrieorsel1340]

One of my favourite films

[@bronzewing1965]

I think 4th time watching this. Best movie Powell ever did. ❤❤... The entire plot was so well written 👏

[@sadlemayfriedman5564]

I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE A FEW TIMES AND LOVE IT WILLIAM POWELL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES AND I HAVEN'T SEEN CAROLE LOMBARD IN MANY MOVIES SO SHE WAS GOOD IN THIS ONE

[@loriforges6304]

Frank Capras' you can't take it with you has the actor playing Carlo, another movie I love and it's from 1938

[@DMariaWoods]

Great movie and the storyline is still relevant. Yes, I'm a Willam Powell fan.

[@piehound]

Were Dick Powell and William Powell related ? If you liked Mischa Auer as CARLO . . . then you can see him again in AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945) as Prince Nikita Starloff.

[@2008-u8b]

charming charming movies with a morality fable in it.very good

[@debbievidzes]

I HAVE WATCHED THIS MOVIE OVER 100 TIMES! I GUESS THAT SAYS IT ALL!

[@dherz108]

Classic movie.

[@eazystreet5507]

When movies has a point.

[@nancyallen628]

It is just as much as fun watching again

[@shansan4933]

I keep watching this movie and makes me laugh😅❤

[@piehound]

All you need for an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.

[@rogerneumann4961]

Thank you Harry. Dick Powell is one of my favorite classic actors. Do you remember when he hosted a tv show called Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater ? These old classic movies have such great dialog-you really have to pay attention.

[@martinweiss3054]

But this is William Powell- not Dick Powell!

[@rogerneumann4961]

@@martinweiss3054 Yes William Powell but in the Zane Gray theater tv show he used Dick. Dick Powell- one in the same.

[@lannypanlock]

I think you probably realize that Dick Powell and William Powell were totally different actors.

[@HenryDallas-u7l]

Dick Powell was a accomplish dancer also.

[@HenryDallas-u7l]

Dick Powell was a accomplish dancer also.

[@johnburns1776]

Such a wonderful movie. And its theme of the Super-Wealthy ignoring the suffering of the Extreme Poor, is more timely than ever. American Elites if anything, have become even more greedy, self-absorbed, indifferent to human suffering, and despicable.

[@BobbyDior]

"I have lost a great deal of money!!" "Well, check your other suit, maybe you left it in there!"

[@Ourladyrules]

take a look at the old dame with the goat.. ive been looking at her for 20 yrs , thats my wife! ooh im terribly sorry.... how do you think i feel. 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@BobbyDior]

@@Ourladyrules Nitwits!?… What are they?

[@Ourladyrules]

@@BobbyDior 🤣🤣🥂

[@loriforges6304]

Give him the 5 dollars and the bucks

[@joeofmacabre07]

At 57:18, he also sang that in the first Thin Man movie

[@m.st.6657]

Irene's mother is totally giving female Osgood lmao

[@BaronessErsatz]

First of all, this stars WILLIAM Powell. Not DICK Powell. Two different actors. Secondly, speaking of William Powell: His family moved to Kansas City MO after his birth back east. He grew up about a block or two away from a little girl who was the daughter of a local dentist. Her name was Harlean Carpenter. They would meet again years later in Hollywood, but she'd been through some chages---starting with her name. Jean Harlowe. And the rest you know.....

[@rjmcallister1888]

One of the first to come out after Carl Laemmle lost Universal to Standard Capital. Innovative titles and a pretty good comedy off a rather sad premise. William Powell, as always, gives a fine performance, and Carole Lombard shows what Clark Gable saw in her. Lovely and lost far too soon. Don't worry. It'll all be over in 93 minutes.

[@edwardstauffer2096]

I did the butler thing once and was a MANS-MAN once for almost a year!!! The work and the PEOPLE where great!!! Never make fun of them,,,,IT IS HARD WORK!!! THEN TO LOOK GOOD AND BE NICE ALL THE TIME!!!!!

[@lizday8140]

The $5.00 dollars offered to the "forgotten men" as a bribe is roughly $107.00 in today's economy. (1936 vs. 2023)

[@stephenhewitt5835]

Brilliant, encore encore

[@Justume]

This classic beats the heck out of modern/woke Hollywood! I say: In with the old, out with the new!

[@ltjamescoopermason8685]

I watch things like the thin man etc and wish the had colorized them (like the movie wonderfully life.casablanca)

[@ericpelote998]

Yeah yeah yeah

[@billrea66]

Great movie .

[@zulemagarcia8594]

Hola subtitulada por favor

[@georgemckoy5837]

It's so Cute after all this time...!

[@Ourladyrules]

one of my all time favourite movies, its in a class all its own. top notch script and superb cast. ive watched over 30 plus times in my life so far. it holds tje same joy now as it did fifty yrs ago 🧓🥰

[@samanthab1923]

The dad is the same actor that played the dad in The Lady Eve

[@ajsmith5295]

Great movie

[@debraorgan5262]

❤😂Delightful movie😅lol funny😊

[@Norfolk250]

His 1936 salary of 150/m would, according to the [Canadian] inflation calculator - be 3,181$ a month in May of 2023, or the whole year he was employed would have gotten him just a smidge over 38k

[@kevinvilmont6061]

Alan Mobray with a good part! ❤

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

A well crafted and executed story. Quirky characters yet on some level believable. Cornelia, were it not that she might like it, is deserved of a sound prolonged spanking. Powell working with ex wife Lombard is something many would find hard to do.

[@N-a-t-a-l-i-a]

все прекрасны, даже Карло ))

[@kamran102]

Totally nuts..

[@shootfirst2097]

I wonder if modern people are aware of the meaning of "The Forgotten Man"

[@lisashapiro4714]

Used to like that a film ..keyword used two

[@leeanncornell8305]

❤❤❤😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

[@ΙωαννηςΜπαβας-κ9θ]

Amazing 😍🤩🤩😍 utube john bavas cabaret

[@DeniseFudge]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE ' BUT I THOUGHT YOU WANTED REAL CRITICS WHOM KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM . IM NOT A CRITIC , JUST KNOW WHAT I LIKE OR LOVE TO FEEL . PS THANKS FOR ASKING BUT REMEMBER I'M A NEWBE ...THANKS AGAIN BET IM NOT THE ONLY NEWBE EITHER . X

[@djchiesa3567]

Cute story line, love Powell but Lombard over plays her parts, too drama queen(ish).

[@joeofmacabre07]

Because her character's family is crazy even her. 😂

[@andreantonius7017]

Gable much more better

[@andys9678]