DINNER AT EIGHT
An old-money, debt-ridden New York couple (Lionel Barrymore and Billie Burke) host a dinner whose guests include a nouveau riche businessman (Wallace Beery; "He smells Oklahoma!") and his crass wife (Jean Harlow; "I'm gonna be a lady if it kills me!"). The cast also features John Barrymore as a fading matinee idol and Marie Dressler as an indomitable one, plus Lee Tracy, Jean Hersholt and May Robson. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's Depression-era farce of changing fortunes was ushered from stage to screen by celebrated scriptwriters Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz; the famous closing zinger is thought to be the contribution of an uncredited Donald Ogden Stewart. DIR George Cukor; SCR Herman J. Mankiewicz, Frances Marion, from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman; PROD David O. Selznick. U.S., 1933, b&w, 111 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
Genre: Comedy-drama
