Diz: Then what are you doing in the Senate?Sweeney: What""s he doing? Well, honorary appointments.Reporter: The country needs men up there who know and have courage as it never did before.He""s just gonna decorate a chair and get himself honored.Reporter: And that he votes, sure, just like his colleague tells him to.Diz: Yes sir, like a Christmas tiger, he""ll nod his head and vote ""YES."" You""re not a Senator.You""re an honorary stooge.You ought o be shown up.BackgroundMy Man Godfrey(1936) is one of the 1930""s most delightful, classic screwball comedies.It was directed by Gregory La Cava for Universal and is now considered the definitive screwball comedy, with its social commentary on life during the 30s.Its title was a takeoff on the similar film title,The Philadelphia Story (1940).It was thefifthof eight films that Sturges wrote and directed for Paramount Studios between his most prolific years, from 1940 and 1946:The Great McGinty (1940)Christmas in July (1940)The Lady Eve (1941)Sullivan""s Travels (1942)The Palm Beach Story (1942)The Miracle of Morgan""s Creek (1944)Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)The Great Moment (1946)The film is literally full of choice, timeless, quotable lines of dialogue, although a portion of the film is slightly dated (the character of the black train porter).Director William Wellman""s pre-code, box-office smash, shot in less than a month at a cost of approximately $151,000, was released at approximately the same time as another classical gangster film -Little Caesar (1930/31)that starred Edward G.It moves closer and zooms into the green field, where it suddenly finds a happy and joyous Maria (Julie Andrews), a novice Salzburg Austrian nun, walking across the wide expanse of land.Over many years after her tyrannical father died and she had inherited her father""s entire fortune, her anger was suppressed and simmering.