My Man Godfrey / His Girl Friday
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MY MAN GODFREY, 1936, Universal, 94 min. Dir. Gregory La Cava. "You people have confused me with the U.S. Treasury!" barks Eugene Pallette to his spoiled, filthy-rich family, including daughter Carole Lombard, who acquires tramp William Powell during a scavenger hunt and makes him her butler, whereupon he teaches her a few lessons about being human. Comeuppance for the wealthy was sure-fire material during the Depression, and no film ever did it better than this one.
HIS GIRL FRIDAY, 1940, Sony Repertory, 92 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. The fastest comedy ever made, this frenzied remake of Hecht and MacArthur's THE FRONT PAGE switches ace newsman Hildy Johnson to a woman (Rosalind Russell), while Cary Grant is cheerfully cynical editor Walter Burns. If you were teaching film comedy, this would be Lesson #1.
