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Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man" -- an apparent down-and-out drifter -- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
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Certain she was dying, Hazel (Carole Lombard) is happy to learn it was a false alarm. But when New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her "courage" wins her many admirers and he falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.
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My man Godfrey: "A wacky scavenger hunt leads dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict. She hires him as family butler. Godfrey soon discovers the Bullocks are as nutty as the proverbial fruitcake" ... Swing high, swing low: "While hoofing it in Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and agrees to a date. The date turns into a nightclub brawl that ends with Maggie missing...
10) In name only
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Wealthy New Yorker Alec Walker meets a young widow, Julie Eden, and a romantic relationship quickly develops. However, Alec has not told her that he is already locked into a loveless marriage to the avaricious Maida, who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife. A coincidental car crash alerts the two women to each other's existence, a situation to which they each react very differently. Maida, who married Alec for his money and...
11) My man Godfrey
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Follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed.
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"Made for each other, young lawyer [James Stewart] meets and marries girl [Carole Lombard] after knowing her one day. ... Lawyer thinks everything will be fine as he moves up the ladder of the law firm. He doesn't and things get tough. A baby makes things even tougher."--Container.
"Pot o' gold, Jimmy [James Stewart], the owner of an out-of-business music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he supports...
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"When New York con man Babe Stewart decides to lie low in a small town, he falls for a librarian seeking adventure and a way out of her predictable existence. Gambling on marriage, they head back to the city, where Stewart tries to hide his former life from his new bride"--Container.
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College Humor: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
We're not dressing: A lowly deckhand is shipwrecked on an island with several passengers including the heiress he's smitten with plus two wacky locals.
15) Fast and loose
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"A raucous, romantic comedy about a woman who can buy anything she wants ...except love. Marion Lenox is the carefree daughter of one of the wealthiest men on Long Island. When Marion abandons her family's aristocratic lifestyle for a humble car mechanic, her parents will do anything to shoot down Cupid's arrow"--Container.
16) Supernatural
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The twin brother of a young woman (Roma) has recently been murdered. Her grief makes her easy prey for a corrupt medium who arranges a seance to conjure up her brother's supposedly troubled soul. Meanwhile, a murderess accused of strangling her lovers awaits execution in the electric chair. Before she dies she agrees to donate her body to a scientist for his unique life-after-death research. Eerily, the doctor's first experiment on the now-dead woman...
19) Virtue
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"This fast-paced comedy-drama features Pat O'Brien as an honest, enterprising cab driver and Carole Lombard as Mae, a prostitute he mistakes for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Mae's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair that she tries to hide from her husband."--Container.
20) Supernatural
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A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.
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