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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
In honor of the release of its new DVD edition of The Last Days of Disco, the folks at the...
Gregory La Cava
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50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 8
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
My Man Godfrey, 1936, b&w. Gregory La Cava (dir.), William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Jean Dixon, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer. 1:34. Set in the depression, this movie involves a wealthy (for the moment) family of eccentrics and a man (William Powell) living in the city dump, “found” as part of a [...]
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Friday Film Review: My Man Godfrey
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
My Man Godfrey (1935) My Man Godrey – The Criterion Collection Genre: Screwball Comedy When I see a film described as a screwball comedy, it’s usually my cue to run away, far, far away. So many try to achieve screwball status and so few succeed. I think maybe because they try too hard. Here director Gregory La Cava [...]
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My Man Godfrey & Easy Living [Comedy Classics at the Paramount this Week]
Austinist (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
My Man Godfrey & Easy Living Double Feature Tuesday, June 23 - Wednesday, June 24 Paramount Theater ( 713 Congress Avenue ) $7 online (if you buy the day before the show), $8 at the window [ info ] | [ tickets ] The Paramount continues their Depression-era comedy theme for the month with 1936's My Man Godfrey and 1937's Easy Living showing Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Both of these comedies throw...
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Top 15 Overlooked Directors
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
TCM lists 15 overlooked directors - UPI.com : "Turner Classic Movies this week unveiled its list of 15 of what is says are some of the most overlooked classic Hollywood directors. The list includes stylish visionary Frank Borzage, who helmed 'Seventh Heaven,' sci-fi director Jack Arnold, whose credits include 'The Incredible Shrinking Man,' the prolific Allan Dwan, who headed up 'Sands of Iwo...
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Doheny to stage a 'Godfrey' reading
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Gotham: Event to take place March 6 in New York -- East of Doheny, the production company behind the Broadway run of "Grey Gardens," will present a reading March 6 in New York of "My Man Godfrey," a new screwball musical comedy based on the 1936 Gregory La Cava film with William Powell and Carole Lombard.
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Hotter Younger Sister Thing #7: Gail Patrick as Cornelia Bullock in MY MAN GODFREY
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 02/12/2009
I know Cornelia isn't necessarily the "younger" sister in Gregory La Cava's classic screwball comedy, MY MAN GODFREY (1936), but she was born three years earlier (than Lombard) and damn is she hot. Sometimes I lose days, weeks, of my life thinking about how hot she is, and what that means about me that I'm drawn to self-possessed sadists. Kim Morgan was the first to point out how much hotter...
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Films of Wrath
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Film Forum’s series of Depression movies, Breadlines & Champagne, resumes on Saturday, Feb. 14, on an especially high note, with Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey (1936), starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer and Franklin Pangborn, at 1, 4:35 and 8:20; and Mitchell Leisen’s Easy Living (1937), from a Preston...
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Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Director: Gregory La Cava By Marilyn Ferdinand There are many classic film buffs out there for whom the Pre-Code era of 1930-1933 is the source of their greatest viewing pleasure. It’s easy to...
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Film: In Hard Times, the Hoi Polloi Stay in the Picture
New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
“Breadlines & Champagne” is a monthlong, 50-film series of movies from the Great Depression, playing at Film Forum in Manhattan.
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SCREWBALL'S GLAM MISTRESS
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
WITH the possibility of a second Great Depression looming closer every day, it's a perfect time to re- visit Carole Lombard, the queen of the screwball comedies that Hollywood offered as a diversion from the economic meltdown of the 1930s...
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Anthony Lane: Help Wanted
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
With immaculate timing, Film Forum has scheduled a series of Carole Lombard films: the perfect response to recession, depression, and other ills, whether of the economy or the soul. One of her most glittering works, showing on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22, is “My Man Godfrey,” directed by Gregory La . . .
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RKO Package 1 - 1:10am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
RKO Package 1 - Stage Door1:10am Monday, 03 Nov 2008 Repeat CC G The lives of tough, smart-talking girls in a theatrical boarding house. CAST: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolph Menjou, Constance Collier, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Ralph Forbes DIR: Gregory La Cava (1937)
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My Man Godfrey - 8:00 PM ET, TCM
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Click Here to download full episode One of the best of the so-called “screwball” comedies, this 1936 classic stars Carole Lombard as a Depression-era society woman who makes a vagrant (William Powell) her family’s butler. Before long, employer starts falling for employee, resulting in a sharply written satire of the class system. Director Gregory La Cava’s [...]
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Primrose Path - 1:25am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Primrose Path1:25am Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 Repeat CC PG The youngest in a long line of 'working girls' falls in love with a common working-class lout. CAST: Ginger Rogers, Joel McRae, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers DIR: Gregory La Cava (1940)