June Allyson took the role of madcap heiress Irene Bullock (played by Carole Lombard in the original 1936 version) in the remake of My Man Godfrey (1957).
David Niven took the role of Godfrey Parke, the rich man posing as a butler (played by William Powell in the original).
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