Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te kiriata tuatahi a Lombard o te tau 1936 ko "Love Before Breakfast", i whakaahuatia e Gehring hei ""The Taming of the Shrew", he momo screwball". I roto i a William K. Howard's "The Princess Comes Across", tana komihana tuarua me MacMurray, i takaro ia i tetahi kaiwhakaari whakaari e wikitoria ana i tetahi kirimana kiriata ma te whakakakahu hei rangatira wahine Sweden. I whakaarohia te mahinga hei whakakatakata mo Greta Garbo, a he nui te whakamoemiti a nga kaiwhakawhiwhi. I haere tonu te angitu o Lombard i te wa i whakauruhia ai ia e Universal Studios ki te whetu i roto i te komihana screwball "My Man Godfrey" (1936). Ko William Powell, e takaro ana i te ingoa o Godfrey, i tohe kia tohua ia hei kaiarahi wahine; ahakoa to raua wehenga, he hoa tonu te tokorua, a i whakaaro a Powell ka tino pai ia ki te mahi a Irene, he rangatira rangatira e whakamahi ana i tetahi "tangata warewarehia" hei kaitiaki o te whanau. I whakahaeretia te kiriata e Gregory LaCava, e mohio ana ki a Lombard i a ia ano, a, i tohutohu ia ki a ia ki te tuhi i tana "te ahua rereke" mo te mahi. I whakapau kaha ia ki te mahi, ina koa ki te rapu i nga tohu kanohi tika mo Irene. I tukuna a "My Man Godfrey" ki te whakamoemiti nui, a, he hit box office. E ono ngā whakaingoa i whakawhiwhia ki a ia i te
Ko te 9 Academy Awards, tae atu ki a Lombard mo te Kaitohutohu Pai rawa atu. E kii ana nga kaituhi koiora ko tana mahinga pai rawa atu, a ko Frederick Ott e kii ana "i tino whakapumautia [ana] hei kaiwhakaari whakaari tuatahi".