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12 January 1934 (USA) morePlot:
Social climbing Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a bunch of New York society types, each of whom has much to reveal. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
An All-Star Classic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | ... | Mrs. Lucy Talbot | |
| Louise Closser Hale | ... | Hattie Loomis | |
| Phillips Holmes | ... | Ernest DeGraff | |
| May Robson | ... | Mrs. Wendel - Cook | |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | Ed Loomis |
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111 min (Turner library print)Country:
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
Canada:G (video rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Australia:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #2284-R: 15 May 1936 for re-release) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)Fun Stuff
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Herbert Bunston and May Beatty are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. moreQuotes:
Dan Packard: Remember what I told you last week?Kitty Packard: I don't remember what you told me a minute ago.
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A flamboyant old actress with memories of lovers long dead. An alcoholic actor desperate for one more chance on the stage. An Oklahoma tycoon and his below-the-tracks, tough as nails wife. A philandering doctor and his faithful wife. They're all invited to meet tonight at the mansion home of a dying industrialist and his flighty, society-obsessed wife for DINNER AT EIGHT.
Following the great success of GRAND HOTEL in 1932, MGM & producer David O. Selznick embarked on producing an even greater all-star triumph. They succeeded. DINNER AT EIGHT takes a first class list of performers at the top of their form (Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Billie Burke) and seamlessly, if a bit implausibly, weaves a plot full of comedy & tragedy which allows each star to strut their stuff.
Dressler was Hollywood's top star at this time and she is wonderful, fingering her jewelry - each piece a remembrance of an ancient romance. She has only one scene with gorgeous Harlow and that comes at the very end of the film, but it's a classic.
The rest of the cast is a wonderful grab bag of talent: peppery Lee Tracy, elderly Louise Closser Hale, gentle Jean Hersholt, as well as Phillips Holmes, Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, May Robson, Herman Bing.
Take a moment to consider Edward Woods, playing Eddie the bell boy. The year before at Warner Brothers he had traded roles with James Cagney in a little picture called PUBLIC ENEMY. Cagney became an instant, huge celebrity. Woods continued to play bell boy roles...