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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DAVIS,BETTE
EAN: 0012569673069
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 27313
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A radio celebrity and his secretary have dinner with a Midwestern family, but his lifestyle and friends upset their lives when he breaks his hip and has to stay to recuperate.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: DAVIS,BETTE
Title: MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
Street Release Date: 05/30/2006
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY VIDEO
Amazon.com:
A legendary Broadway tour de force comes to the screen with Monty Woolley's central performance in The Man Who Came to Dinner. And it's a turn well worth immortalizing. All goatish beard, snapping teeth, and plummy-voiced put-downs, Woolley fully inhabits the role of Sheridan Whiteside, a celebrated author and radio celebrity who gets waylaid by a cracked hip during a visit to small-town Ohio. Bossing the helpless homeowners and bewildered staff from his wheelchair, he quickly fills his hosts' house with his projects (including four penguins) and famous visitors (Ann Sheridan as a self-centered diva, Jimmy Durante as a comedian based on Harpo Marx). Bette Davis goes for a quieter role than usual as Whiteside's assistant; she falls for a local newspaperman, drippily played by Richard Travis. They all revolve around the seated figure of Woolley, his hands drumming on his armrests, his teeth bared as though ready to devour his inferiors. He's delicious. The script is larded with topical references and Broadway-style repartee, not all of which has aged well, and director William Keighley doesn't have a clear grasp of how to shoot jokes. But the basic situation is so durable, and Whiteside's character (based on famed Algonquin Round Table wit Alexander Woollcott) so unusual and nasty, that the movie remains great fun. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Misanthrope's Treat!
I first saw this movie when I was eight, and even at that age, I thought it was hilarious! Monty Woolley is perfect as the internationally acclaimed author, Sheridan Whiteside, who overstays his welcome at the Stanley family's house after falling and injuring himself on their front steps. It is comical to see how the Stanleys turn from Mr Whiteside's admiring fans to his resentful enemies. While staying with the Stanleys, Whiteside creates an unrelenting stream of chaos in everyone's lives he is ... Read More
Rating: - Laugh-a-lot.
My wife and I laughed a lot watching this film. Of course, we are old enough to have remembered all the stars and all the references. We enjoyed all the plot twists as well as the performances of each of the movie stars playing the characters in this wild story. The fact that it was in black and white did not bother us. It was a trip down memory lane, especially with Jimmy Durante's typical antics.
Rating: - The Man Who Came To Dinner
My husband & I love this movie & were thrilled to find it at an amazing price. Delivery was fast & the DVD was in perfect condition.
Rating:  - The Man Who Came To Dinner
Great adaption of the Broadway hit. Superb cast. Perhaps the best work by George Kaufman and Moss Hart.
Rating: - "SHERRY' MIXED WITH VINEGAR
I've been waiting years to write this review. I'm sick and tired of watching "Miracle on 34th Street" and "It's a Wonderful Life' during the Christmas holidays and hardly ever seeing this outrageously funny holiday classic even listed or mentioned. Just check out the ratings;90% of the reviewers give it 5 stars! And why not? Woolley takes over someone else's house and proceeds to 'hold court" following a fall which he milks to the brim.As Sheridan Whiteside, Woolley's a big shot and he knows ... Read More
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