The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Richard L. Bare, William Keighley, Jean Negulesco

The Man Who Came to Dinner
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Actor: Ann Sheridan, Bette Davis, Billie Burke, Jimmy Durante, Monty Woolley
Director: Jean Negulesco, Richard L. Bare, William Keighley
Brand: DAVIS,BETTE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (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

Movie Reviews of The Man Who Came to Dinner

Movie Review: A Misanthrope's Treat!
Summary: 5 Stars

I first saw this movie when I was eight, and even at that age, I thought it was hilarious! Monty Woolley is perfect as the internationally acclaimed author, Sheridan Whiteside, who overstays his welcome at the Stanley family's house after falling and injuring himself on their front steps. It is comical to see how the Stanleys turn from Mr Whiteside's admiring fans to his resentful enemies. While staying with the Stanleys, Whiteside creates an unrelenting stream of chaos in everyone's lives he is invovled in. While confined to a wheelchair, he amuses himself by attempting to break up his secretary, Maggie's, romance with a local newspaperman, Burt, by inviting the glamorous but unbelievably conceited actress, Lorraine Sheldon, over to turn Burt's attention away from Maggie. He also encourages the Stanleys' children to elope and take ships around the world to pursue photography. Despite the hilarity of watching Mr. Whiteside gain so much glee from causing chaos, the best part of this film are the side characters. There is Dr. Bradley (who never realizes when Whiteside is belittling him), Beverely carlton (a typical ham actor), Miss Preene (Whiteside's nurse who becomes almost as mispanthropic as him after taking care of him), and Banjo, a girl crazy/madman/actor played by Jimmy Durante. Don't miss this classic Kaufman and Hart comedy if you want to see the Golden Age of '30s-'40s wit and satire!

Summary of The Man Who Came to Dinner

A radio celebrity and his secretary have dinner with a Midwestern family, but his lifestyle and friends upset their lives when he breaks his hip and has to stay to recuperate.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: DAVIS,BETTE
Title: MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
Street Release Date: 05/30/2006
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Genre: COMEDY VIDEO
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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