Life With Father
Here for all!! All the happiness of the play that ran longer, the laughs that were louder than any known before!

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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: July 24, 2018
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Digicomtv
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Powell, Irene Dunne & Elizabeth Taylor | |
Performer: | Jimmy Lydon, Emma Dunn, Edmund Gwenn, Martin Milner & Zasu Pitts | |
Directed by | Michael Curtiz | |
Edited by | George Amy | |
Screenplay by | Donald Ogden Stewart | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Produced by | Robert Buckner | |
Director of Photography: | J. Peverell Marley & William V. Skall | |
Executive Production by | Jack L. Warner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Good cast, competent direction can't save this seemingly interminable nostalgia flood.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Irene Dunne and William Powell have captured to a considerable extent the charm of the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
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Variety
Curtiz knocks it together without so much as breaking sweat.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
Powell is nothing less than magnificent as the mustached philosophizing patriarch, and Dunne casts a warm glow beside him.
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TV Guide
All in all it's innocuous with infrequent laughs.
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Film4
Rating: 5/5 --
Dunn and Powell are adorable, musty charm in this sweet family classic.
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)
Product Description:
One of the best family films ever made which resulted in a N.Y. Film Critics Award for Powell. This delightful comedy based on Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse's Broadway play provides a look at family life in New York City during the 1880's. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Actor--William Powell. This classic also features Irene Dunn, Edmund Gwenn and a young Elizabeth Taylor.
Plot Synopsis:
Based on the popular stage play, which was adapted from Clarence Day Jr.'s own childhood reminiscences, about growing up in 1880s Manhattan with his stern, but loving, father, wise mother, and three younger brothers.
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Production Notes:
- Color by Technicolor.
- Additional cast: Derek Scott (Harlan), Johnny Calkins (Whitney), Frank Elliott (Dr. Somers), Queenie Leonard (Maggie), and Nancy Evans (Delia).
- Adapted from the stage production by Oscar Serlin.
- Additional credits; Clarence Day Jr. (technical adviser) and Ray Foster (special effects).
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 93,708
- UPC: 887936434419
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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