The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Richard L. Bare, William Keighley, Jean Negulesco
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Actor: Ann Sheridan, Bette Davis, Billie Burke, Jimmy Durante, Monty WoolleyDirector: Jean Negulesco, Richard L. Bare, William Keighley
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Invite the Man Who Came to Dinner to your next Christmas Celebrations
Summary: 5 Stars
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a welcome video guest to any Christmas season and any DVD collection even if Monty Wolley's character would not be welcome in your home. Great fun to watch and to try and fugure out all the dated cultural references. Good ensemble performacnces from all involved and Bette Davis does a terrific job at modulating her acting style so as not to produce the DIVA persona that normally dominates the cast members in all of her other pictures.
Summary of The Man Who Came to Dinner
A pompous lecturer is forced to spend the winter inside a prominent Ohio family's home due to injury and proceeds to meddle with the lives of everyone in the household.A legendary Broadway tour de force comes to the screen with Monty Woolley's central performance in The Man Who Came to Dinner. And it's a turn well worth immortalizing. All goatish beard, snapping teeth, and plummy-voiced put-downs, Woolley fully inhabits the role of Sheridan Whiteside, a celebrated author and radio celebrity who gets waylaid by a cracked hip during a visit to small-town Ohio. Bossing the helpless homeowners and bewildered staff from his wheelchair, he quickly fills his hosts' house with his projects (including four penguins) and famous visitors (Ann Sheridan as a self-centered diva, Jimmy Durante as a comedian based on Harpo Marx). Bette Davis goes for a quieter role than usual as Whiteside's assistant; she falls for a local newspaperman, drippily played by Richard Travis. They all revolve around the seated figure of Woolley, his hands drumming on his armrests, his teeth bared as though ready to devour his inferiors. He's delicious. The script is larded with topical references and Broadway-style repartee, not all of which has aged well, and director William Keighley doesn't have a clear grasp of how to shoot jokes. But the basic situation is so durable, and Whiteside's character (based on famed Algonquin Round Table wit Alexander Woollcott) so unusual and nasty, that the movie remains great fun. --Robert Horton
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