The Man Who Came To Dinner Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, Elisabeth Fraser, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier Synopsis: A critic breaks his hip in someone's home and stays there, in charge, until it mends
Directed by William Keighley. From the Kaufman/Hart play. Format: DVD Color: Black and White Rating: Not Rated Genre: Comedy Runtime: 112 Year: 1941 Director: William Keighley
The film version of Kaufman and Hart's hit Broadway comedy "The Man who Came to Dinner" is a first rate Warner Brother's production of 1941. While Monty Woolley gets third billing to Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan, clearly for box office reasons, the film centres around his ferrocious performance based on Alexander Woollcott.The story is simple. An egocentric celebrity arrives in a small town in Ohio, fractures his hip on the icy steps outside the house of one of the town's emminent citizens, threatens to su..
Well, I recently had a wonderful experience watching "The Little Foxes", a darkly dramatic Bette Davis film rich with razor-sharp dialogue, so I guess it should be no surprise that I also had a wonderful time watching this silly, comedic Bette Davis film rich with razor-sharp dialogue. Serious or funny, it seems clear that 40's-era Bette Davis films tend to deliver the banter. The change here is that Ms. Davis isn't the one delivering the edgy witticisms, at least not most of them. That job goes to the v..
Nurse: You shouldn't eat chocolates, Mr. Whiteside. They're bad for you.Whiteside: My great aunt Jennifer ate a box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days she looked better than you do now.Based on the stage hit by Kaufman/Hart and adapted for the screen by Julius and Philip Epstein (who also did some thing called "Casablanca"), "The Man Who Came to Dinner" may be one of the ten funniest pictures ever made. In a thinly disguised caricature of Alexander Woo..
