Walter Huston
Sam Dodsworth
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Dodsworth (film) Dodsworth. (film) Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Huston reprised his stage role.
Dodsworth: Directed by William Wyler. With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor. A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1936-09-23
When Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston), the head of a car company, embarks on a vacation in Europe with his youth-obsessed wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton), the couple find themselves growing apart. Soon ...
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- Walter Huston
- William Wyler
- Drama
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A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Increasingly obsessed with maintaining an appearance of youth, she falls in with a crowd of frivolous socialites during their "second honeymoon" European vacation. He, in turn, meets a woman who is everything she is not: self-assured, self-confident ...
Dodsworth - The Essentials. SYNOPSIS: After years of hard work building an automotive empire, Midwesterner Sam Dodsworth decides to retire and take his wife Fran on an extended and long overdue trip to Europe. Sam, who has spent his life focused on work, is a wide-eyed American abroad, eager to take in the sights, experience new places, then ...
The film opens, to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne," within the executive office of the Dodsworth Motor Company. The wealthy, self-made, hard-working, successful auto tycoon and manufacturer Samuel Dodsworth (Oscar-nominated Walter Huston) has his back to the camera, as he looks out over his sold factory.
