Could he - "My Man Godfrey"-style - even turn out to be a strayed society scion?
The ideas he tried to float - a musical based on "My Man Godfrey," for instance - were met with blank stares.
Gregory La Cava - film director, perhaps best known for directing My Man Godfrey.
These traits can be seen in both It Happened One Night and My Man Godfrey.
My Man Godfrey became the first film to receive nominations in all four acting categories.
That same year, he also received his second Academy Award nomination, for the comedy My Man Godfrey.
In the 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, it is seen several times as backdrop to the city dump where the "forgotten men" live.
My Man Godfrey was in production from 15 April to 27 May, 1936, and then had retakes in early June of the year.
My Man Godfrey was nominated for six Academy Awards:
My Man Godfrey was the first movie to be nominated in all four acting categories, in the first year that supporting categories were introduced.
