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Movies that feel like My Man Godfrey (1936)

If you loved My Man Godfrey, the closest films we have are It Happened One Night (1934), The Awful Truth (1937) and The Palm Beach Story (1942). All three share My Man Godfrey's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on MGM Plus, Pure Flix and IndieFlix and others, checked against today's data.

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gregory La Cavawittyplayfulromantic
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It Happened One Night
1934 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 98%8.1comedy · romance

Both are working the same pair: black and white, screwball comedy

The difference: Sits closer to romance than My Man Godfrey does

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

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The Awful Truth
1937 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 94%7.6comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: screwball comedy

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

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The Palm Beach Story
1942 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 94%7.5comedy · romance

Both land wit and play at once

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

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His Girl Friday
1940 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 99%7.8comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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Holiday
1938 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%7.7comedy · romance · drama

Both lean on romance more than on comedy

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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The Philadelphia Story
1940 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%7.8comedy · romance

Comedy built on wit, twice over

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

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Bringing Up Baby
1938 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 97%7.8comedy · romance

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 · dir. Charles Reisner
🍅 96%7.8comedy · romance

The shared currency is romance

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

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The Thin Man
1934 · dir. W.S. Van Dyke
🍅 98%7.9comedy · mystery · crime

Both sit in the same witty register

Former detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke and adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Thin Man combines witty dialogue, sophisticated comedy, romance, and classic mystery. William Powell and Myrna Loy are perfectly matched as Nick and Nora Charles, whose playful banter and effortless chemistry made them one of Hollywood’s most beloved screen couples. This stylish 1934 mystery remains a landmark of classic American cinema.

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The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 99%8comedy · drama · romance

Common ground: lovesickness

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

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Sons of the Desert
1933 · dir. William A. Seiter
🍅 100%7.5comedy

A streak of play through both

The difference: None of the romance My Man Godfrey is built on

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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The Bank Dick
1940 · dir. Edward F. Cline
🍅 96%7.1comedy

Both are comedy through and through

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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