After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
Statement of Responsibility:
a Universal ; a Paramount picture ; [presented by] Adolf Zukor ; a Leo McCarey production ; screen play by Viña Delmar ; photographed by William C. Mellor ; directed by Leo McCarey
Title:
Make way for tomorrow
[videorecording]
Publisher:
[Irvington, NY] :, The Criterion Collection,, c2009
Edition:
Special ed full screen
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (92 min.) :,sd., b&w ;,4 3/4 in.+,1 booklet ([32] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Notes:
Based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence and a play by Helen and Nolan Leary
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937
Special features: "Tomorrow, yesterday and today" interview featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of Leo McCarey and 'Make way for tomorrow;' Interview with critic Gary Giddins in which he talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film. Booklet: "Make way for Lucy..." essay by Tag Gallagher; "We laugh and our hearts ache" essay by Bertrand Tavernier; "With this ending I thee unwed" excerpt from Robin Wood's Sexual politics & narrative film
Credits:
Musical direction by Boris Morros ; original music by Victor Young and George Antheil ; special photographic effects by Gordon Jennings ; art direction by Hans Dreier and Bernard Herzbrun ; edited by LeRoy Stone ; sound recording, Walter Oberst and Don Johnson ; interior decorations by A.E. Freudeman.
Performers:
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt, Gene Morgan.
Summary:
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
System Details:
DVD; region 1, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono, high definition digital transfer
Other Language:
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Subject Headings:
Lawrence, Josephine, 1897?-1978 Film adaptations
Leary, Helen Film adaptations
Leary, Nolan Film adaptations
Foreclosure United States Drama
Separation (Psychology) United States Drama
Parent and adult child United States Drama
Married people United States Drama
Genre/Form:
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Feature films-United States-local
Topical Term:
Foreclosure
Separation (Psychology)
Parent and adult child
Married people
Additional Contributors:
Zukor, Adolph
- 1873-1976
- Producer
McCarey, Leo
- Director
Delmar, Viña
- 1903-1990
- Author of screenplay
Mellor, William C.
- 1904-1963
- Cinematographer
Moore, Victor
- 1876-1962
- Actor
Bondi, Beulah
- 1892-1981
- Actor
Bainter, Fay
- 1892-1968
- Actor
Mitchell, Thomas
- 1892-1962
- Actor
Hall, Porter
- 1888-1953
- Actor
Read, Barbara
- 1917-1963
- Actor
Moscovich, Maurice
- 1871-1940
- Actor
Risdon, Elizabeth
- 1887-1958
- Actor
Gombell, Minna
- 1892-1973
- Actor
Mayer, Ray
- d. 1948
- Actor
Remley, Ralph
- 1885-1939
- Actor
Beavers, Louise
- 1902-1962
- Actor
Heydt, Louis Jean
- 1905-1960
- Actor
Morgan, Gene
- 1892-1940
- Actor
Morros, Boris
- 1891-1963
- Conductor
Young, Victor
- 1889-1968
- Composer
Antheil, George
- 1900-1959
- Composer
Dreier, Hans
- 1885-1966
- Artistic director
Herzbrun, Bernard
- Artistic director
Stone, LeRoy
- Film editor
Freudeman, A. E.
- Designer
Lawrence, Josephine
- Make way for tomorrow
- 1897?-1978
Leary, Helen
- Author
Leary, Nolan
- Author
Bogdanovich, Peter
- 1939-
- Commentator
Giddins, Gary
- Interviewee
Gallagher, Tag
- Make way for Lucy
Tavernier, Bertrand
- We laugh and our hearts ache
Wood, Robin
- 1931-2009
- Writer of accompanying material
Publisher No:
CC1862D
ISBN:
9781604652307
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Add a CommentAuthentic, unsentimental -- combines deep sadness with moments of humor, romance, and beauty. Excellent acting, and the extras (an informative commentary & an interview) bring insights into the movie and its making. A must see!
Good acting and a social issue that resonates into our current time period....Look for the scene where the mother short-circuits her favorite son's plan with a plan of her own.....And the anniversary scenes of the older couple at the hotel where they'd honeymooned....Good stuff!
Very sweet movie. It's a shame more people haven't heard of it. The second half is as poignant a piece of cinema as I've seen.
A poignant film. Apparently Orson Welles said that the film was so sad, "it would make a stone cry." Well, it is a sad but beautiful tale.
This is an unknown masterpiece. Leo McLary said when he got the Oscar for The Awful Truth that they were giving it to him for the wrong movie. Hard-nosed and relatively unsentimental, considering the subject matter.