What an excellent movie - as soon as I heard Monty's voice I knew who it was (didn't look at the credits). Ida Lupino is fine - what a mind, what a heart, what a face - triple threat! Thanks for posting this 💖 🇨🇦
Why did she turn to alcohol? Howard was also g. reat. Did his being blackballed affect their marriage? He played Same Spade with great understayed humor. Love that about him.
Lupino & Wilde were great but oh how supporting actors Woolley & Allgood have stolen my heart. Love Cooper & Demarest too. Sad story about the love of a child for her alcoholic father but he is clever enough to know who to marry.
When Monty Woolley belches at the beginning when he is in Santa's chair, and says "what did you expect madam; chimes" has its roots in a true story. Woolley was attending a dinner party one night and belched rather loudly. One woman was so appalled she glared at him and he glared back and said that line. The other guests were so amused that he insisted the line be written into his next movie, which is this one!
40:49 ..as she's reminding him only to drink lemonade, and he remarks: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth" ... is from Act 1, Scene 4 of King Lear, the same play he's protesting about. The full quote is: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child".
Awesome movie came here for Monty Wooley, but left with all the other actors in my heart. During the holidays The man who came to dinner is a must see in my household, the kids love, love it 💝🤗
They'll enjoy. 2. BIGGIES. Most likely! 1930 s NIGHT Work. And all will also enjoy. Judy Garlands. Gay Paris. ' Pare' " so awesome features. JulieKilburn
Great little movie, wonderful script and fantastic acting !! Those days are long gone with all the crap they produce these days for movies..... Thanks for posting much appreciated. *******
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Thank you for this! never saw it or even heard of it - love Ida Lupino and Monty Woolley, both. Agree with comment below - great script and acting. soooo nice! thanks again :)
I grew up with 2 alcoholics so I had not desire to see "Lost weekend" (love Mr. Miland) or Days of Wine and Roses (love Mr. Lemmon and Lee Remick). Las Vegas, NV August 3, 2019
Hollywood's visuliations of real life tragedy. It's not at all pure fiction. As alcoholism as with other forms of drug abuse can wreck other people's lives both emotionally as well as physically. I do not mean the occasional drinker. I mean real alcoholics.
@@MikeGreenwood51 I did not know the central theme of this film, even as I have avoiding viewing Ida Lupino movies, as, so often, they were too painful. Too, late into this film, I still can't handle it.
@@jongirard2753 @Jon Girard Word to the wise: turns out there's two "They Drive By Night" films, one made in 1938 in the UK starring Emyln Wood -- I just watched that one in vain, wondering when Ida Lupino would float onscreen. It can be watched here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tbb35n5BKQg.html The one with Ms. Lupino was made in 1940, and harder to find free on YT. The trailer is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p78XR5BbSJk.html Both have truck driving and crime noir in them, so I'm still happy :)
I think Ida Lupino and I have the same old moto: "Work like a Dog, think like a Man, and act like a lady." Jackie Kennedy did, too. Both accepted that it would be a "man's world" for a long time, but they were too smart to waste energy bellyaching about it. Ida opened her own studio, IdaLou, rather than succumb to being owned by the studios. (Imagine having to get permission to marry, and if you didn't, you were finished). Wilde was so young and handsome, a fine actor and by all accounts, a good person. He has 'good Eyes'. TY for posting this gem!
Was there anyone of that generation of pretty boys who was quite as stiff as Cornel Wilde? He makes John Derek and Tab Hunter look like Gielgud and Richardson. This script was adapted from a play by the Welsh writer and actor Emlyn Williams in which the daughter was cripple. Hollywood, in this case, screenwriter Nunnally Johnson and Zanuck at Fox, managed to sanitize the story and lighten it up. Monty Wooley was an actor of great charm if not of great depth who misses the pathos of the role. A pleasant diversion that might have been something else in more talented hands.
My 2nd time enjoying this film. The multi-talented and lovely Ida Lupino was deeply in love with her first husband and Actor Louis Hayward! They were a right match for each other, but WW2 happened and he joined the Marine Corps and came back with 'Battle Fatigue' or 'Shell Shock' as it was referred to back then. Thus, causing their divorce after she tried hard to save it.
Some top acting credentials here. Monty Woolley was a professorial fixture at the Yale Drama School for many years. Ida Lupino's family had been actors going back to Renaissance Italy. Primarily known today as a respected director of feature films ("The Hitch-Hiker," "The Trouble With Angels" ) and TV ("Twilight Zone" "Gilligan's Island," and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents") Ida Lupino was also a highly rated actress, lending her sultry beauty and clear diction to parts ranging from a femme fatale ("They Drive By Night") to broad comedy ("PIllow to Post"). Though it was not generally known, she had had polio in her late teens, and though recovered entirely, the experience must have lent a special dimension to her role as a lame woman in "Life Begins At Eight Thirty."
Ida Lupina was an amazing actress! She was never one of my favorites until recently, watching her movies on RU-vid. Extremely talented unlike today’s actors! Thank you fo this lovely movie 💕
sara allgood. also the welsh mother in how green was my valley and a slattern in kitty with paulette goddard and vivien leigh's mother in the lady hamilton. always good to see allgood.
I love that he says to his aunt; "Where did you get that hat?, Rosalind Russell?"... ;))) I love "Rosalind's" taste in hats. She can make something that you'd think you'd be uncomfortable in look fabulous, she was definitely a person who could start a trend!(BostonRachel)EDIT:+SHE HAD GREAT TASTE IN CLOTHES, PUTTING OUTFITS TOGETHER...GREAT TASTE IN GENERAL!
Sara Allgood was also the mother in How Green Was My Valley. I learned a line from her in that movie, “Oh, Go blow it out your nose”. I say quite often now
Monty Wooley - wow!!! although my absolute favorite is "The Man Who Came to Dinner". thank you so much for all these movies - makes me feel like myself again - most of the new bunch of actors (not all though) are so alike and really bore me.
@Sharon Andrews: Ever seen "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with Monty Wooley, Bette Davis, Billie Burke, Ann Sheridan, and Jimmy Durante? If you like Monty Wooley, you should not miss "The Man Who Came to Dinner." He's the star--his role is bigger than Bette Davis's. She plays his secretary. Excellent movie that one can watch over and over.
Good. I, too, like his professor character in "The Bishop's Wife" but for my money, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" is his best role. ONe of those movies that we can watch many, many times and enjoy it just as much as the first time. I think that must be because of the pacing--the rapid pace at which the story progresses. It's almost frantic, but that's part of the hilarity. Anyway, glad you've seen it.
Absolutely! His delivery is very arch, and every line fairly drips with irony. What he could do with the tone and intonation of his voice was a marvel. A laugh a minute, especially with that fast pace. Worlds of fun! Every time. Cheers!
Like going to Wikipedia checking out the actors in this movies. I was surprised of Ida Lupino who's married to Howard Duff for almost 31 years. I guess I wasn't really surprised but that's part of the fun of going to Wikipedia to see who these stars were married to. And checking out if their children became actors.
when i was a kid, i thought it was so great that she and Howard Duff were together. i thought it was a great match - they just seemed right together. when i was older, i thought the same for Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. well, so much for the thoughts of kids - i guess i was a real romantic - and still am. i enjoy looking up actor's lives, too. Yule Brynner had a son - 'Rock' Yul Brynner, who became a writer and many other such things. people who are artists often have kids who stay in the business one way or another. :}
Thank you , I TOTALY am amazed ,one I haven't seen , thank you pizza flixs just a loveing gester I absultly love the 30 s and 40s melodramas , I think I've see them all ,the classics any way. ,just INCASE you find a lovely hear worming it would be very welcoming!
Selfish to the very end, then slithered off having upset all plans without a word to prevent it, to continued hedonism. I see no humor in alcoholism or other forms of elective self- destruction, especially when available alternatives are dismissed.
In Hollywood in 1942 being next to the Pacific there was much concern about potential Japanese invasion, sabotage and naval bombardment. I agree though, nobody in this film seems to notice there's a war on.
What a GEM to find hidden away here in RU-vid. I am a "fan" of both "Monty Wooley" of the Whiskers; and a "fan" of "Ida Lupino" and to find these two delightful Actors combining their talents in the One film, which was released way back in 1942, beginning with a Christmas setting. You and I dear viewer here in RU-vid - we receive their blessings. Let us remember them fondly by watching their performances intently until the end. Thanks to this Channel titled: "1930 and 1940's Classics"...I have Added this posting, and a Link to this Channel, in my Channel = Titled: "Take Your Seats"... { which is dedicated to Show Business} I will be Checking to see what "Other treats" I may find in this Channel. That is, after I have finished watching ... "Life Begins At Eight-Thirty"" ... My Thanks & Compliments to the Poster here...Bless You
@@TakeYourSeats You don't have to make a separate post to make a correction, you know. :-) Simply touch the three dots in the upper right corner of your original post, hit EDIT, make your correction, and touch the blue arrow to post the edited version. Done!
I saw her in 1951, a movie she made with Richard Wimark. George Wu, ARCHITECT, A.I.A., NCARB 2018-9-18 And after that I only read about her name as a director, acting no more.
