An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
- Director
- Writers
- Viña Delmar(screen play)
- Josephine Lawrence(based on a novel by)
- Helen Leary(play)
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- Director
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- Viña Delmar(screen play)
- Josephine Lawrence(based on a novel by)
- Helen Leary(play)
- Stars
- Awards
- 3 wins
- Mr. Hunter
- (uncredited)
- Minor Role
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- Nightclub Patron
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- Mrs. Sarah Rubens
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- Director
- Writers
- Viña Delmar(screen play)
- Josephine Lawrence(based on a novel by)
- Helen Leary(play)
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Did you know
- TriviaOrson Welles was quoted as saying that the film "would make a stone cry".
- GoofsNellie's arm jumps from her ear to her lap when she says, "I'll have to talk to Harvey about it."
- Quotes
Rhoda Cooper: Why don't you face facts, Grandma?
Lucy Cooper: Oh, Rhoda!
[Pats her hand]
Lucy Cooper: When you're 17 and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're 70... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today (2010)
- SoundtracksWhen a St. Louis Woman Comes Down to New Orleans
(1934) (uncredited)
Written by Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow and Gene Austin
But Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore who are in relatively good health all things considered are not entering the twilight years of a happy life together without some big problems. The family homestead as did many family homesteads during the Depression has been taken by the bank, forcing Victor and Beulah to look to their children for help.
In those days that's exactly what used to happen. But none of their five children can take on both of them, they have no room. So Beulah goes to live with son Thomas Mitchell and his wife and daughter Fay Bainter and Barbara Read. Moore goes to live with daughter Elizabeth Risdon and husband Ralph Remley. In both households the parents are made to feel in the way and in some respects they were.
It was the cruelest kind of punishment to separate two people who spent half a century together. But that's what happens to both. Before the end of the film, the two spend a day in New York reminiscing of lost youth and the good times therein.
Moore and Bondi were around the same age as their 'children' and were made to look much older. Bondi made a specialty of playing much older than she was and in fact did live into her nineties. As for Moore though he was doing character roles now, he was a big comedy star on the Broadway stage going back to the ragtime era. His biggest role on Broadway was co-starring with Fay Templeton in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes From Broadway.
Especially in the last half hour Moore and Bondi will pull all the emotional restraints from your soul. They really do become an idealized version of parents and grandparents. Make Way For Tomorrow is heartstring touching movie and hasn't dated one bit.
- bkoganbing
- Sep 6, 2010
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- Years Are So Long
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- Gross worldwide
- $6,416
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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