Make Way for Tomorrow

Name: Make Way for Tomorrow
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Leo McCarey

1937

7.3

Title: Make Way for Tomorrow

Original Title: Make Way for Tomorrow

Year: 1937

Info

Country: USA
Length: 91 Minutes (1 hour 31 min)
Genre: Drama Romance
Studios: Paramount Pictures
Age rating: U (Universal)

Release Dates

United States: May 07 1937

Vídeos eCartelera

Joseph Quinn y Ebon Moss-Bachrach profundizan en sus personajes y el futuro de 'Los 4 Fantásticos'

Plot

An old couple reunited their children to inform that they are ruined and their home is being foreclosed, their independent children to avoid this tragedy decided to spread out their parents, Ma moves with George and Pa will live with his daughter Cora. This change in the elderly life is a blow because they get used to life together their whole life. They will can control the situation? They will go back their lives?.

Considered one of the best classic movies of all times. Produced by Paramount Pictures, one of the most important studios. Leo McCarey got make great principal actors from supporting actors in 'Make Way for Tomorrow', The film is considered the best film of the director.

Cast

Director:

Leo McCarey Leo McCarey

George Cooper

Lucy Cooper

Anita Cooper

Passerby

Trivia

Orson Welles was quoted as saying that the film "would make a stone cry".

French director Bertrand Tavernier's then wife, Colo Tavernier, was responsible for writing the French subtitles for its foreign release. She recalled that she found it extremely difficult to type up these subtitles as her eyes were full of tears.

Paramount boss Adolph Zukor reportedly pressured Leo McCarey to alter the film's downbeat ending, but the director resisted, and his contract with the studio was not renewed.