Rewatching an Old Favorite

If you haven't seen My Man Godfrey, now would be a good time take it out of the library or Google how to watch it for free.  It's one of our favorite movies; our Top Ten list has about twenty entries so don't ask me to be more specific. But for a put a smile on your face experience, there are few films that match it.

Really.  Just look at these two:

the criterion collection

He's delighted with her.  She's seeing through the grime.  They're surprised with what's there.

Carol Lombard pouts better than anyone in movies.

William Powell does superior and disdainful and kind just as well.  

He and Carole Lombard, the charmingly ditzy rich girl who hires him as her family's butler, were recently divorced after a two year marriage when he insisted that she be cast opposite him in the film. 

Knowing that, I paid special attention to how they looked at one another.

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That's an iconic irreconcilable differences but yes, I know you are adorable and you know it, too moment.  It needs no words.  It just is what it is.

We often refer to A Perfect Movie - one that could not be improved upon by a casting or scripting or directing or musical or sets or or or ..... change.  Think To Have and Have Not and Princess Bride .... and My Man Godfrey