Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- lovesickness
- butler
- scavenger hunt
- black and white
- screwball comedy
- socialite
- depression era
- high society
- lovesick
- mentor protégé relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Powell
Godfrey
Carole Lombard
Irene Bullock
Alice Brady
Angelica Bullock
Gail Patrick
Cornelia Bullock
- Eugene Pallette — Alexander Bullock
- Jean Dixon — Molly
- Alan Mowbray — Tommy Gray
- Mischa Auer — Carlo
- Pat Flaherty — Mike Flaherty
- Robert Light — Faithful George
- Bess Flowers — Mrs. Merriweather (uncredited)
- Bert Moorhouse — Card Playing Party Guest (uncredited)
- Franklin Pangborn — Guthrie (uncredited)
- Grady Sutton — Charlie Van Rumple (uncredited)
- Jane Wyman — Socialite (uncredited)
- Directed
- Gregory La Cava
- Written
- Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 400 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
