Make way for tomorrow [videorecording] / a Paramount Picture ; Adolf Zukor presents ; a film by Leo McCarey ; screen play by Viña Delmar ; directed by Leo McCarey.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers. Based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence and a play by Helen and Nolan Leary. Special features: "Tomorrow, yesterday and today:" a new video interview featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of Leo McCarey and 'Make way for tomorrow;' new video interview with critic Gary Giddins in which he talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film. Booklet features new essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavenier, and an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood's "Sexual politics & narrative film," c1998.
Summary:
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
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