An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in. www.imdb.com/ti... en.wikipedia.or... www.tcm.com/tcm...
Fun fact: A teenager named Melvin Kaminsky saw Victor Moore in a Broadway show with Ethel Merman as a kid. He was stagestruck on the spot, vowing to get into the entertainment business instead of the gown trade. That was Mel Brooks.
When Orson Welles met upcoming film maker Pete Bogdanovich for the first time, Bogdanovich mentioned this film and Welles said, "Isn't that the saddest movie ever made?" Leo McCarey won best director at the 1938 Oscars (1937 films) for the divorce-and-remarriage screwball comedy "The Awful Truth," starring Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Ralph Bellamy. When McCarey gave his acceptance speech, he said that he had won for the wrong movie. Bondi and Mitchell, mother and son in this film, played sister-in-law and brother-in-law in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946).
Can the full version of this movie be found on the web to watch free? All I see are short clips. Particularly important for today's society of aging parents in 2023!
I have never seen such a terrible movie, rather terrifying, nor war, tragedy of heroes is comparable to this, never s story has spoken to me in this way, this is like looking straight to death itself and not a glorifying one from heroes that you can soon dismiss as fantasy, and the fact that its shot in 1937 makes it even worse, having the fresh generation of that past almost perished and so will the next ones and the next ones truly painful... (And the main song reminds me of Everybody Loves Somebody)
Amazing what this movie can do to you. I have never seen anything so tragic and so wonderful at the same time. They were truly as heart broken as a person could be but so in love none of it mattered and the knew what they had the best 50 years a person could have. This love story puts all others to shame.
Sadly while this haunting superior film Make Way For Tomorrow keeps fading away, copy cat movie Tokyo Story continues receiving all the cinematic praise, but like seriously why?
Every child should see this movie. Their parents had them and then they'll wait til their golden years without saving enough and be a damn burden on their kids. Don't fall for that. Tell them NO. Let them go to a rest home together. Why burden yourself and your families and friends with senile old people who can't even afford to keep up a home of their own. You didn't ask to be born. Why allow them to use you later in life as their security blanket. Let the state pay for them. Enjoy your life while you are young and don't waste it away molly coddling a couple of deadbeats. Who told them to have five kids? Clearly they couldn't afford it. Same way in 2020. People have all these kids and then want to live off the government in housing and food stamps. Kids want more out of life. They've seen their deadbeat parents have too many kids they can't afford and kids have to suffer until they can get out on their own and have a good life. Don't let the old people drag you down with any guilt.
SMH OMFG! I wonder what generation you are? I know you are just PHISHING for responses and I guess I bit- but there is no way I can keep from commenting on such b.s. you wrote here. Opinions are what they are but you intentionally inflict such awful trash comment like this to others. SHAME and that's the only real word.. except I feel sorry for you.
