Attention Carole Lombard Fans: Film Series Coming Up
"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 Cava, from 1936. Lombard plays Irene Bullock, who scavenges a tramp (William Powell) from the city dump, to use as sport for socialites. He earns a place in her home, as a butler, and consequently in her heart, thus proving his status as one of nature’s gentlemen.
"The title alone lampoons the idea that one American should ever own another. If the movie has worn as well as any screwball, it’s because of the ferocious streak that courses through its revelry—not unlike the filthy laugh and the dirty looks with which Lombard punctuated her breathless chatter. Clad in silk, fluff, and loose pajamas, she bounces beautifully off Powell, who is suavity itself, and off the great Eugene Pallette. If anyone was born to play an angry man called Alexander Bullock, it was he."
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