Gay darling dears! I love this movie, don't you?

You may find this closed thread of interest.

This film (and play) have such a bizarre premise that a complete stranger, even one slightly injured would just set up shop in someone's home in the middle of nowhere and stay there when clearly they want him gone.

It makes no sense to me.

It's a farce, r2. Absurd situations are par for the course in those, it would be odd if they weren't a bit bizarre.

Go back an reread your Jane Austen, R2. There was a time when decent manners and family pride meant that you never sent away someone who was ill or injured.

There's a very funny old French film farce called (in its English version) "Bizarre, Bizarre."

I have a friend who refers to this film as "The Gentleman Who Came to Dinner". His saying that makes me want to slap him.

Thank you R1!

R2 had you been paying attention you would have known that he threatened to sue the family if they kicked him out.

It was funny.

Ann Sheridan had some dazzling Orry-Kelly hats in this one.

I love semenal gay films.

Bette Davis said she wanted John Barrymore to play SW. She thought Monty Wooley to be monotonous. I have to agree with her.

Usually don't care for Ann Sheridan. Her harsh manner suggests that she's really a man. But I like her in this, from the moment where she's abruptly yelling at a manicurist.

John Barrymore, if sober enough to do the role, would have been a great choice.

Stanwyck would have put a bullet in his head on day 2.

I understand this humor’s appeal at the time the film appeared. Yet I’ve known and disliked a few characters like Sheridan Whiteside, so I never enjoyed the film. I try every so often to watch again, but always switch it off when the Penguins appear.

One of the best film comedies of the 1940s. Always makes me laugh

This collection of Warner breakdowns of 1942 has some for the film from 3.00.

[quote]Her harsh manner suggests that she's really a man.

What does that even mean, r11?

[quote] John Barrymore, if sober enough to do the role, would have been a great choice.

I wonder if he was in any kind of shape to make the film. He died in May 1942 and the last few years were hard for him.

I mentioned this movie in another thread about houses in old-time movies that I'd love to live in. The living room and kitchen, the woodwork on the stairs, and overstuffed furniture in front of the huge fireplace is loaded with Gemütlichkeit. I liked the feeling of skating on the pond and someone selling baked potatoes. And Ann Sheridan was magnificent, though Durante was overbearing -- probably the only time I didn't love him.

There’s a musical version. It has only one halfway decent song. The rest is trash.

Monty Woolley, Mary Wickes, and Ruth Vivian reprised their roles from the 1939 Broadway adaptation.

DL fave, Coral Browne, who played the Bette Davis role in the 1941 West End production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," supposedly purchased the rights to the play and collected royalties from all future productions.

My wife, the actress, Coral Browne.

Monty Woolley in that film looks like Raul Esparza's older self.

Bette certainly seems to be enjoying herself in those blooper moments at r16. She even seems to like Monty Woolley.

Oh yes-this is the best movie and everyone was in it.