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Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 1948 · Winner
Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1948 · Nominated
Academy Award Art Direction (Color) 1948 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor 1948 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography (Color) 1948 · Nominated
Life with Father is a 1947 American Technicolor comedy film adapted from the 1939 play of the same name, which was inspired by the autobiography of stockbroker and The New Yorker essayist Clarence Day. [1] [2] It tells the true story of Day and his family in the 1880s. His father, Clarence Sr., wants to be master of his house, but finds his ...
Life with Father: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn. A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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- Comedy, Family
- Michael Curtiz
- 1947-09-13
J. Peverell Marley. William V. Skall. 1948 Nominee Oscar. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color. Robert M. Haas. George James Hopkins. 1948 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Max Steiner.
Score. Cinematography (colour) Lee Pfeiffer. Life with Father, American comedy film, released in 1947, that was based on Clarence Day, Jr.’s best-selling autobiography (1935) of the same name. The film chronicles Day’s childhood growing up in Victorian-era New York under the ironclad rule of his stern but loving father (played by William.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Distribution Company. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Country. United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the play Life with Father by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, as produced by Oscar Serlin (New York, 8 Nov 1939) and the books God and My Father (New York, 1932) and Life with Father (New York and London, 1935 ...
A wealthy, uptight Wall Street stockbroker of the late 1800s runs his household with an iron fist, much to the amusement of his family and staff. These legendary tales, first written by Clarence Day, for the New Yorker Magazine, were developed into "Life With Father," the longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history.
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