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Lakeshore Classic Movies

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Season 2023 Episode 51

In this Depression-era screwball comedy, a Park Avenue brat (Carole Lombard, in an Academy Award nominated role) is looking for a ‘forgotten man’(William Powell) in a scavenger hunt, and goes on to bring him home to be the family’s new butler.

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Second Chorus (1940)
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1:23:57
Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith are rival trumpeters trying to impress Paulette Goddard.
Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
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When a man is murdered, his daughter looks for those who might have plotted against him.
Algiers (1938)
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Jewel thief (Charles Boyer) meets beautiful girl (Hedy Lamarr) in the mysterious Casbah.
Appointment with Danger (1950)
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Postal inspector (Alan Ladd) works with nun to thwart the biggest mail heist in history.
Lost Horizon (1937)
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Plane crash in the Himalayas leads group of survivors to the secluded land of Shangri-La.
Destroy All Monsters (1968)
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Aliens force the giant creatures of Monster Island to destroy the world’s largest cities.
Godzilla: King of Monsters! (1956)
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American reporter (Raymond Burr) witnesses giant lizard monster attack post-war Tokyo.
Stagecoach (1939)
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Ringo Kid (John Wayne) and a group of strangers ride through dangerous Apache territory.
A Christmas Wish (1950)
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A squirrel helps a down-on-his-luck Jimmy Durante and his vaudeville family at Christmas.
Scrooge (1935)
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Seymour Hicks is the world’s most well-known miser in Dickens’s classic Christmas tale.
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
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Priest (Bing Crosby) & nun (Ingrid Bergman) have different ideas how to turnaround school.
Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
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1:20:07
Ghost (Constance Bennett) works to reunite Topper and his wife to gain entry into heaven.
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