Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 drama film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
The supporting cast includes Thomas Mitchell, who played Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone with the Wind (1939) and "Uncle Billy" in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
The film was written by Viña Delmar, fr...
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Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 drama film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
The supporting cast includes Thomas Mitchell, who played Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone with the Wind (1939) and "Uncle Billy" in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
The film was written by Viña Delmar, from a play by Henry Leary and Noah Leary, which was in turn based on the novel The Years Are So Long by advice columnist Josephine Lawrence.
McCarey believed that this was his finest film. When he accepted his Best Director Oscar for The Awful Truth, he said "Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture." Orson Welles reportedly said of the film, "It would make a stone cry," and rhapsodized about his enthusiasm for the film in his booklength series of interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles. In Newsweek magazine famed...
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