Academy Awards Nominations: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival
AFI Cinematheque

Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a “forgotten man”—an apparent down-and-out drifter—at a dump. She hires him as the family butler and soon falls for him, driving her to to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household’s dysfunction.

USA - 1939 - 1h 34m
Directed By: Gregory La Cava
Written By: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch, Gregory La Cava
Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard