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The Mating Season is a 1951 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, and Walter Reisch, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn.
A classic screwball comedy about a mother-in-law who poses as a cook for her son and his new wife. The film features Thelma Ritter, Miriam Hopkins, and Larry Keating, and was nominated for an Oscar.
- (2K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
- 1951-01-12
The Mating Season (1951) Gene Tierney. Ellen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of ...
- 97 min
- 45.4K
- Larry movies
The Mating Season is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1949 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29, 1949, by Didier & Co., New York.
- P. G. Wodehouse
- 1949
Mating Season, The - (Original Trailer) Thelma Ritter pretends to be a cleaning lady to get to know her son's high-society in-laws in The Mating Season, 1951, also starring Gene Tierney and John Lund, directed by Mitchell Leisen.
- Mitchell Leisen, Oscar Rudolph
- Gene Tierney
After working-class mother Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) runs into financial troubles, she takes a trip to see her son, Val (John Lund), who is now married to the sophisticated Maggie...
- Comedy
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing.
