Review of My Man Godfrey (1936) by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert for Village Voice — 19 May 1988
In one of her greatest roles, as burbling blonde heiress Irene Bullock in Gregory La Cava’s 1934 screwball masterpiece My Man Godfrey, Lombard creates a ditz so rare, a creature so otherwordly in her oblivion to what others call reality, that she comes off less as a thing of flesh and blood than as a shimmering cloud of butterflies flying in perfect, girl-shaped formation.
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This review of My Man Godfrey (1936) was written by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert and published by Village Voice on 19 May 1988.
My Man Godfrey has generally received very positive reviews.
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