Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Firimu rokutanga raLombard ra1936 raiva "Rudo Pamberi peKudya Kwemanheru", rakatsanangurwa naGehring se"Kudzora Shrew", chimiro che screwball. MuWilliam K. Howard's "The Princess Comes Across", mutambo wake wechipiri naMacMurray, akatamba mutambi wechidiki uyo anokunda chibvumirano chemufirimu nekuzvifananidza semuchinda weSweden. Mutambo uyu wakaonekwa sekuseka Greta Garbo, uye wakarumbidzwa zvikuru nevatsoropodzi. Kubudirira kwaLombard kwakapfuurira sezvo iye akanyoreswa neUniversal Studios kuti atambe mu screwball comedy "My Man Godfrey" (1936). William Powell, uyo akanga achitamba Godfrey ane zita rimwe chete, akaomerera pakutorwa kwake semutungamiri wechikadzi; pasinei nekurambana kwavo, vaviri vacho vakaramba vane ushamwari uye Powell akanzwa kuti aizove akakwana muchikamu chaIrene, mugari wenhaka anopenga anoshandisa "murume akanganwa" semubati wemhuri. Iyi firimu yakatungamirirwa naGregory LaCava, uyo aiziva Lombard pachake uye akamukurudzira kuti atore pa "hunhu hwake" hwebasa racho. Akashanda zvakaoma pamutambo wacho, zvikurukuru pakuwana zviratidzo zvomumeso zvakakodzera nokuda kwaIrene. "My Man Godfrey" yakabudiswa ichirumbidzwa zvikuru uye yakabudirira zvikuru pamabhokisi emahofisi. Yakagamuchira mazita matanhatu pa 9th Academy Awards
, kubatanidza Lombard nokuda kweMutambi Akanakisisa. Vanyori venhau dzoupenyu vanotaura nezvayo somutambo wake wakanakisisa, uye Frederick Ott anoti "zvakajeka zvakasimbisa [iye] somunhu anonakidza wepamusoro".