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Chicken Every Sunday is a 1949 American comedy film directed by George Seaton. The screenplay by Seaton and Valentine Davies is based on the 1944 play of the same title by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, which was based on the memoir by Rosemary Taylor.
Chicken Every Sunday is a 1943 autobiographical book by Rosemary Drachman Taylor, written while Taylor was living in Ontario, Canada during World War II. It is a humorous look at her family's life in 1900s Tucson, Arizona, and was compared to Life With Father.
Chicken Every Sunday: Directed by George Seaton. With Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Young. A rueful wife (circa 1910) recalls 20 years of her husband's financial fumbles, as she keeps a boarding house to support the family.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Seaton
- 1949-06-22
Chicken Every Sunday (1949), a sentimental comedy-drama set in early 20th-century Arizona, is no exception. The project started as a 1943 novel by Rosemary Taylor entitled Chicken Every Sunday: My Life with Mother's Boarders, which was turned into a 1944 Broadway play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein.
- George Seaton, Arthur Jacobson
- Dan Dailey
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Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained investments. Emily only keeps a roof over the family by taking in boarders...more and more of them.
At the turn of the 20th century, new bride Emily Hefferen (Celeste Holm) learns that her good-hearted but hapless banker husband, Jim (Dan Dailey), has lost all his money in bad investments.
- Comedy
