On Monday, June 6, 2022, the Dover Free Library presents the feature film My Man Godfrey, starring William Powel, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Gail Patrick and Alice Brady, Showtime: 3:00 pm. Runtime: 95 minutes. Rating: NR. This event is free and open to the public. Questions: 802-348-7488

Plot Summary: "My Man Godfrey," one of the treasures of 1930s screwball comedy, doesn't merely use Lombard and Powell, it loves them. She plays Irene, a petulant kid who wants what she wants when she wants it. His Godfrey employs an attentive posture and a deep, precise voice that bespeaks an exact measurement of the situation he finds himself in. These two actors, who were briefly married (1931-33) before the film was made in 1936, embody personal style in a way that is (to use a cliché that I mean sincerely) effortlessly magical. Consider Powell, best known for the "Thin Man" movies. How can such reserve suggest such depths of feeling? How can understatement and a cool, dry delivery embody such passion? You can never, ever catch him trying to capture effects. They come to him. And Lombard in this film has a dreamy, ditzy breathlessness that shows her sweetly yearning after this man who fascinated her even when she thought he really was a bum.