Dinner at Eight
HERE IS THE SCREEN'S CLIMAX OF GLAMOR AND THRILL THAT RAN OVER A YEAR ON BROADWAY! THE STAGE SMASH NOW A SENSATIONAL FILM TRIUMPH!
1933 | 111m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | George Cukor |
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| Writer: | Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, John Meehan |
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| An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 22, 1933 |
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| Director: | George Cukor |
| Writer: | Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, John Meehan |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
| Keywords | new york city, adultery, blackmail, businessman, great depression, alcoholism, based on play or musical, debt, social satire, extramarital affair, socialite, pre-code, eviction, financial problem, heart condition, financier, shipping magnate, dinner party, socialite party, shipping company, unhappy marriage, stage actress, fading star, suicide by gas, corrupt businessman, theatrical agent, theatre producer |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $2,156,000
Budget: $435,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Marie Dressler | Carlotta Vance |
| John Barrymore | Larry Renault |
| Wallace Beery | Dan Packard |
| Jean Harlow | Kitty Packard |
| Lionel Barrymore | Oliver Jordan |
| Lee Tracy | Max Kane |
| Edmund Lowe | Dr. Wayne Talbot |
| Billie Burke | Millicent Jordan |
| Madge Evans | Paula Jordan |
| Jean Hersholt | Jo Stengel |
| Karen Morley | Lucy Talbot |
| Louise Closser Hale | Hattie Loomis |
| Phillips Holmes | Ernest DeGraff |
| May Robson | Mrs. Wendel |
| Grant Mitchell | Ed Loomis |
| Phoebe Foster | Miss Alden |
| Elizabeth Patterson | Miss Copeland |
| Hilda Vaughn | Tina |
| Harry Beresford | Fosdick |
| Edwin Maxwell | Mr. Fitch |
| John Davidson | Mr. Hatfield |
| Edward Woods | Eddie |
| Anna Duncan | Dora |
| Herman Bing | Waiter |
| George Baxter | Gustave (uncredited) |
| Mary Dees | Undetermined Role (uncredited) |
| Tenen Holtz | Butler (uncredited) |
| Frank Puglia | Butler (uncredited) |
| Bess Flowers | Lucy (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Edna Ferber | Theatre Play |
| Donald Ogden Stewart | Additional Dialogue |
| Adrian | Costume Design |
| Douglas Shearer | Sound Director |
| Frances Marion | Screenplay |
| Herman J. Mankiewicz | Screenplay |
| John Meehan | Writer |
| Joseph M. Newman | Assistant Director |
| Cullen Tate | Assistant Director |
| George S. Kaufman | Theatre Play |
| Ben Lewis | Editor |
| Hobe Erwin | Art Direction |
| Fredric Hope | Art Direction |
| William H. Daniels | Director of Photography |
| Charles E. Wallace | Sound Mixer |
| Frank Tanner | Still Photographer |
| Harvey White | Still Photographer |
| Chester W. Schaeffer | Assistant Editor |
| George Cukor | Director |
| William Axt | Original Music Composer |
| Bert Spurlin | Props |
| William Riley | Assistant Camera |
| Floyd Porter | Gaffer |
| A. Lindsley Lane | Camera Operator |
| Roy Clark | Still Photographer |
| Eugene Joseff | Other |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| David O. Selznick | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Excellent. Part of my TCM Jean Harlow 4-pack, and the bonus feature-length doc on Harlow's short life and career is exemplary. Highly recommended to any Pre-Code connoisseurs--and I know you're out there... ...
One of great director George Cukor's best films, Dinner at Eight is a prime example of a Pre-Code era classic, and an excellent star vehicle for the combined multifarious talents of Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Brothers Barrymore (Lionel and John), Jean Harlow, and Billie Burke, among others. Cou ... pled with the great acting is the offbeat and alternately dramatic and humorous story line of the flighty hostess who plans an extravagant dinner party for a wealthy and highly-esteemed British couple who never do show up. The audience is introduced one by one to the various guests, as well as the host and hostess, and by the conclusion of the film, the viewer knows how and why each of them has chosen whether or not to accept the invitation, with each character's situation shown in an intimate, behind-the-scenes manner. Would I recommend? Yes, but please, don't go into this thinking you're in for a hyper, all-out screwball comedy. It's not. It's a comedy/drama leaning more toward the latter, and it's very...different. That's all.