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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.
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.
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]
Jul 15, 2021. Mar 11, 2020. Rated: 4/4 • Mar 24, 2011. Rated: 3/5 • Dec 4, 2007. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. In late 19th-century New York City, stockbroker Clarence Day (William Powell) strives...
1h 58m. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost. Cast & Crew. Read More. Michael Curtiz. Director. William Powell. Father [Clarence Day] Irene Dunne.
Synopsis. New York City, 1883. Businessman Clarence Day strives to run his Madison Avenue home as efficiently as his business. His temperamental outbursts over the smallest infractions so terrorize the servants that even the charm of his sweet-tempered wife Vinnie cannot keep a maid longer than a few days.
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 Powell ).
