Life With Father
Plot
Stockbroker Clarence Day is the benevolent curmudgeon of his 1880s New York City household, striving to make it function as efficiently as his Wall Street office but usually failing. His wife Vinnie is the real head of the household. In keeping with Day's actual family, all of his children are redheaded boys. The anecdotal story encompasses such details as Clarence's attempts to find a new maid, a romance between his oldest son Clarence Jr. and pretty out-of-towner Mary Skinner, a plan by Clarence Jr. and his younger brother John to make easy money selling patent medicines, Clarence's general contempt for the era's political corruption and the trappings of organized religion, and Vinnie's push to get him baptized so he can go to heaven.[4]
| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
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| Screenplay by | Donald Ogden Stewart |
| Based on | Life with Father 1935 autobiography by Clarence Day 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
| Produced by | Robert Buckner |
| Starring | William Powell Irene Dunne Elizabeth Taylor |
| Cinematography | William V. Skall J. Peverell Marley |
| Edited by | George Amy |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4,710,000 |
| Box office | $6,455,000 |
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