What is My Man Godfrey / My Sister Eileen about?

Double Feature: 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. Comeuppance for the wealthy was surefire material during the Depression, and no film ever did it better than this one. MY SISTER EILEEN, 1942, Sony Repertory, 96 min. Dir. Alexander Hall. Remade as a musical comedy in 1955, the original screen adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Oscar nominee Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair as sisters who move to Manhattan to further their respective careers in journalism and theater. Renting a cheap Greenwich Village apartment brings the pair into contact with eccentric neighbors, helpful magazine editor Brian Aherne and, in a cameo appearance, The Three Stooges.

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What is My Man Godfrey / My Sister Eileen about?: Double Feature: 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. Comeuppance for the wealthy was surefire material during the Depression, and no film ever did it better than this one. MY SISTER EILEEN, 1942, Sony Repertory, 96 min. Dir. Alexander Hall. Remade as a musical comedy in 1955, the original screen adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Oscar nominee Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair as sisters who move to Manhattan to further their respective careers in journalism and theater. Renting a cheap Greenwich Village apartment brings the pair into contact with eccentric neighbors, helpful magazine editor Brian Aherne and, in a cameo appearance, The Three Stooges.