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Dinner at Eight is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Cukor released in USA on 12 january 1934 with Marie Dressler
Dinner at Eight (1933)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 january 1934
Length 1h53
Directed by George Cukor
OriginUSA
Themes Films about sexuality
Rating74%
Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American Pre-Code dramedy film directed by George Cukor. Adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's play of the same name, it features an ensemble cast of Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, and Billie Burke.
Dinner at Eight continues to be acclaimed by critics; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% approval among 17 critics, with an average rating of 8.6/10.
Synopsis
One week before her next society dinner, Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) receives word that Lord and Lady Ferncliffe, whom she and her husband Oliver (Lionel Barrymore), a New York shipping magnate, had met in England the previous year, have accepted her invitation. Overjoyed by this social coup, Millicent is oblivious to Oliver's lack of enthusiasm about the dinner and her daughter Paula's (Madge Evans) preoccupation about the impending return of her fiancé, Ernest DeGraff (Phillips Holmes), from Europe. Millicent fusses about finding an "extra man" for her single female guest, former stage star Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler), who resides in Europe.Actors
Marie Dressler
(Carlotta Vance)
John Barrymore
(Larry Renault)
Wallace Beery
(Dan Packard)
Jean Harlow
(Kitty Packard)
Lionel Barrymore
(Oliver Jordan)
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