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Friday, May 30, 2008

Godfrey loves me! He put me in the shower!

Here's an essay by Roger Ebert on one of the coolest movies of the 20th century, My Man Godfrey.

One paragraph, just to set the table:

The movie also benefits from the range of sharply defined characters, and the actors to play them. Even the biggest stars in those days were surrounded by other actors in substantial roles that provided them with counterpoint, with context, with emotional tennis partners. Notice here the work of Eugene Pallette, who bluntly speaks truth even though his family is deaf to him. By God, he's had enough: "What this family needs is discipline. I've been a patient man, but when people start riding horses up the front steps and parking them in the library, that's going a little too far. This family's got to settle down!"

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