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Babbitt: Directed by William Keighley. With Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd, Maxine Doyle. Middle-aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest-growing community in America according to its town sign.
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- Drama
- William Keighley
- 1934-12-08
Country. United States. Language. English. Babbitt is a 1934 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis directed by William Keighley and starring Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee and Claire Dodd. The screenplay is about a staid small-town businessman who gets ensnared in shady dealings.
Sinclair Lewis's celebrated novel Babbitt, published in 1922, has inspired two screen adaptations, which is impressive for a novel that barely has a plot. The first movie arrived in 1924, directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Willard Louis and Mary Alden as the eponymous protagonist and his wife.
- William Keighley
- Aline Macmahon
Mar 3, 2016 · Babbitt (1934) Starring Guy Kibbee, Aline MacMahon. March 3, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment. Change the names—including the title—and the second screen version of Babbitt works better than you’d expect. In fact, a similar movie, minus such influential source material, had proved popular just a couple of months earlier when Babbitt ...
Opening sequence, the city of Zenith, the title character (Guy Kibbee) arising, wife (Aline MacMahon), daughter (Maxine Doyle) and son (Glen Boles) breakfasting, Hattie McDaniel the maid, from the Warner Bros.' 1934 version of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt.
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Synopsis. THE STORY THAT MADE 100,000,000 AMERICANS LAUGH AT THEMSELVES! Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor.
