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Life with Father
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Produced by Robert Buckner
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart Based on the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Based on the memoir by Clarence Day
Produced by Robert Buckner
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart Based on the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Based on the memoir by Clarence Day
With:
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, Zasu Pitts, Martin Milner, and Arlene Dahl
Cinematography:
J. Peverell Marley and William V. Skall
Editing: George Amy
Music: Max Steiner
Editing: George Amy
Music: Max Steiner
Runtime:
118 min
Release Date: 13 September 1947
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 13 September 1947
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Color: Color
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Proving that even a film with the best possible talent in front and behind the camera can turn out flat and lifeless, this adaptation of Broadway’s longest-running non-musical play is directed by Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce), written for the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart (Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, That Uncertain Feeling) and stars the peerless William Powell and Irene Dunne and features sexy ingénue Elizabeth Taylor. Yet it is about as stiff, bland, and tedious as a comedy can be.