The Man Who Came to Dinner Movie Review

The Man Who Came to Dinner

NOTHING COULD Exist FUNNIER!

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to motion in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

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Monty Woolley an absolute legend merely roasting everyone who comes within x anxiety of him
did jimmy durante do a line of cocaine earlier every take or is he only like that
Jack Warner: alright I need someone to play Sheridan Whiteside...not John Barrymore (despite him CLEARLY being the best fit) because he is literally on the brink...not Orson Welles considering he's too intensely charismatic...not Charles Laughton because he'south as well extravagant and also a bit gay...not Cary Grant because he'south too much of a hunk...non Monty Woolley because he is quite literally too homosexual
Monty Woolley: I can play straight! I can practice information technology! Just let me!
Jack Warner: Fine! I literally don't care!
Monty Woolley: *proceeds to phone call himself baby every half 60 minutes or so and not even a hetero baby, similar an "I'm baby" babe*
A comedy about a gay man torturing a house of heteros for Christmas jollies.
'Is there a human being in the world who suffers as I practise from the gross inadequacies of the human race?' (Monty Woolley as Sheridan Whitehouse)

The notoriously acerbic Mr. Whiteside (based on critic/author Alexander Woollcott) has strong claims to existence the most insupportable of unwelcome house guests in the history of the movies. He has a fractured hip - or so everyone is lead to believe! - and can't perchance be moved until it has healed, so whilst 'recuperating' in the run-up to Christmas he makes life excruciatingly intolerable for the family unfortunate enough to be burdened with his cantankerous presence, as well every bit his long-suffering secretary (Bette Davis) who he schemes to keep in her post when she would…
These people were lucky; I had a visit from the man who came on dinner! 🤢
Monty Wooley owns this film. Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Billie Burke, and Grant Mitchell are excellent as well. The story is about a famous man who is a bully and breaks his leg going into someone'due south house for dinner. He ends up staying a month creating havoc in everyone's life. Why didn't they have him in the infirmary?

The play was written past George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, members of the famed Algonquin Round Table. If you don't know who they are, look them upwardly. If you don't know about the Algonquin Circular Table, terminate what yous are doing and expect them upward! Extremely acerbic wits, all of them. They based the character of Sheridan Whiteside on another member of the Round Table, Alexander Woollcott. It is likewise bad people don't read or think much of the personalities who and then dominated earlier literary life.

But the pic is good and funny and acerbic.
Purely a watch for Bette Davis who felt quite underused but was notwithstanding wonderful to run across withal. Nevertheless the standout for me was Ann Sheridan she only looked like she had so much fun with this one. I think this was the almost lively I've ever seen her and her grapheme felt larger than life and was just so enjoyable to encounter.
7/10

Enjoyable comedy that maybe is a niggling longer than necessary, merely I wouldn't turn down a Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan motion-picture show.
About v minutes into this, I was struck with a sense of deja vu. Fifty-fifty now I cannot tell if I have seen this before or not, but it was damnably familiar. My all-time guess is that I saw parts of it on telly at some betoken. Since I can't say for certain, I am not marking information technology as a rewatch.

What I liked about this film is that the awful behavior of the crude, boorish men at the center of this film is met with consequences. It takes a while in all cases, but somewhen, the women of this film revolt confronting the revolting behavior. Notably, Mary Wickes, a scenestealer whenever she appears, quits right subsequently Jimmy Durante'southward grapheme…
This motion-picture show is such a ride! The bandage is corking, with Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, a rascally equally always Jimmy Durante, Mary Wickes, Billy Burke and the always acerbic Monty Woolley, reprising his office from Broadway. The script is fast paced and full of snappy zingers and witty i-liners and it is e'er wonderful to see and then many fabulous actors in ane cast all giving such great performances. But ultimately suffers from never existence able to become out of the confines of information technology's original stage roots. Past missing the chance to open the film up more and thus spend more time with the supporting players, to create the much needed balance to bring more life to the motion picture. Though it'southward chaotic, zany and contemptuous energy even so brings us a Christmas film with a difference, making a fun and worthwhile sentinel, no matter the time of year!
This film has always been a guilty pleasance for me.I was in a summer camp product of it in the Catskills. More than so after reading "Harpo Speaks" and all the other Bio'southward about this fascinating group of show people.
Hither'south my idea- I remake it with Paul Bartel as Sheridan Whiteside. Are you with me? Casting suggestions accepted.