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==Remakes and adaptations== ''My Man Godfrey'' was twice adapted as a one-hour radio broadcast on ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'': on May 9, 1938, with David Niven playing the part of Tommy Gray;<ref name=":2" /> and on November 9, 1954, with [[Jeff Chandler]] and [[Julie Adams]].<ref name="Toledo">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uPlOAAAAIBAJ&pg=2386%2C5993601&q=Mv+Man+Godfrev+Jeff+Chandler+Julie+Adams |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Tuesday Radio Programs - Radio Highlights |page=4 (Peach Section) |newspaper=Toledo Blade (Ohio) |date=October 9, 1954 |access-date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> It was also adapted to radio in a half-hour version on the October 2, 1946, episode of ''[[Academy Award (radio series)|Academy Award Theater]]'', again starring William Powell.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_AkkAAAAIBAJ&pg=3406%2C430347&q=My+Man+Godfrey+Academy+Award+Theater+William+Powell |title=Wednesday Selections |page=4 (Peach Section)|newspaper=Toledo Blade (Ohio) |date=October 2, 1946 |access-date=September 18, 2020 }}</ref> When [[My Man Godfrey (1957 film)|the film was remade in 1957]], [[David Niven]] played Godfrey opposite [[June Allyson]], directed by [[Henry Koster]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/52293-MY-MANGODFREY|title=My Man Godfrey (1957)|website=AFI Catalog|access-date=April 23, 2020}}</ref> A stage musical version of ''My Man Godfrey'', produced by Allan Carr and written by librettists Alan Jay Lerner and Kristi Kane and composer Gerard Kenny, was intended for Broadway in 1985,<ref>{{cite web |first=Enid |last=Nemy |title='My Man Godfrey' Bound for Broadway |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/03/19/my-man-godfrey-bound-for-broadway/ |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 19, 1985 |access-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref> but remained uncompleted at the time of Alan Jay Lerner's death in 1986.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smzrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA270|title=Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2014|isbn=9780199949274|editor-last=McHugh|editor-first=Dominic|page=270|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
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