Life with Father

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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 1947
Country: USA
Runtime: 118
Rating: 7.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Michael Curtiz
Sound: Mono
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Here for all!! All the happiness of the play that ran longer, the laughs that were louder than any known before!

Writing by: Clarence Day - (memoir)
Howard Lindsay - (play) &
Russel Crouse - (play)
Donald Ogden Stewart - (writer)

Produced by: Robert Buckner - producer
Jack L. Warner - executive producer

Cast: William Powell - Clarence Day, Sr.
Irene Dunne - Vinnie Day
Elizabeth Taylor - Mary Skinner
Edmund Gwenn - Rev. Dr. Lloyd
Zasu Pitts - Cora Cartwright
Jimmy Lydon - Clarence Day, Jr.
Emma Dunn - Margaret
Moroni Olsen - Dr. Humphries
Elisabeth Risdon - Mrs. Whitehead
Derek Scott - Harlan Day
Johnny Calkins - Whitney Day

Music: Max Steiner
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Plot Outline: A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousity of a bookkeeper.
Plot: In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of patent medicine selling. When it comes to light he has never been baptized and everyone starts insisting he must do so, it all starts to get a bit too much.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The opening credits are superimposed on scenes of old New York, viewed as if through an old-fashioned stereopticon.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The opening scene shows a carriage block with "Clarence Day" engraved on it. A few seconds later after the police man passes by, the carriage block has no engraving.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The premiere was on 14 August 1947 in Skowhegan, Maine, where the play had its initial performance eight years before. The stage play ran 3,224 performances, holding the record for the longest non-musical run on Broadway. The play was based on Clarence Days book.
Before filming began, the cast was taken to Perc Westmores salon on a Sunday morning to have their hair dyed red. When it was time to rinse the dye, the beauticians discovered that the water had been turned off for the entire block because the street was being repaired. Because dyes were so strong then, leaving them on could have caused the cast to lose their hair. Luckily, someone suggested diluting the dye with cold cream.
The plays writers, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and Clarence Days widow were on the set and were given veto power on all aspects of the film. According to author David Chierichetti, Mrs. Day approved Irene Dunnes characterization and even lent some jewelry that belonged to the real Vinnie.