William Powell
Clarence Day, Sr.
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Life with Father (1947) - full transcript. In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of patent medicine selling.
Life With Father Script. Year: 1947. Director: Michael Curtiz. Written by: Clarence Day (Author), Howard Lindsay (Theatre Play), Russel Crouse (Theatre Play), Donald Ogden Stewart (Writer) Script Synopsis: A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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.
- (6.4K)
- Comedy, Family
- Michael Curtiz
- 1947-09-13
Life With Father -- (Movie Clip) Do You Ever Do Duets? Vinnie (Irene Dunne) greets cousin Cora (ZaSuPitts) and friend Mary (Elizabeth Taylor), then introduces sons John (Martin Milner) and Clarence Jr. (James Lydon), in Life With Father, 1947.
Life with Father is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day. The Broadway production ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds. [1]
- Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
- 1939
A financier from New York rules his family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulous misogyny of a bookkeeper. Director: Michael Curtiz...
- 118 min
- 3.9M
- Cult Cinema Classics
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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.
