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Kein Platz für Eltern

Original title: Make Way for Tomorrow
  • 1937
  • Approved
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
9.5K
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Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
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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
    • Leo McCarey
  • Writers
    • Viña Delmar
    • Josephine Lawrence
    • Helen Leary
  • Stars
    • Victor Moore
    • Beulah Bondi
    • Fay Bainter
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    9.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Leo McCarey
    • Writers
      • Viña Delmar
      • Josephine Lawrence
      • Helen Leary
    • Stars
      • Victor Moore
      • Beulah Bondi
      • Fay Bainter
    • 91User reviews
    • 63Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins

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    Trailer 1:35
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    Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi, Alice Keating, Victor Moore, Joseph North, and Don McKinney in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Fay Bainter and Thomas Mitchell in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi and Thomas Mitchell in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Beulah Bondi and Barbara Read in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Victor Moore, Maurice Moscovitch, and Elisabeth Risdon in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)
    Louis Jean Heydt and Victor Moore in Kein Platz für Eltern (1937)

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    Victor Moore
    Victor Moore
    • Barkley Cooper
    Beulah Bondi
    Beulah Bondi
    • Lucy Cooper
    Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter
    • Anita Cooper
    Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell
    • George Cooper
    Porter Hall
    Porter Hall
    • Harvey Chase
    Barbara Read
    Barbara Read
    • Rhoda Cooper
    Maurice Moscovitch
    Maurice Moscovitch
    • Max Rubens
    Elisabeth Risdon
    Elisabeth Risdon
    • Cora Payne
    Minna Gombell
    Minna Gombell
    • Nellie Chase
    Ray Mayer
    • Robert Cooper
    Ralph Remley
    • Bill Payne
    Louise Beavers
    Louise Beavers
    • Mamie
    Louis Jean Heydt
    Louis Jean Heydt
    • Doctor
    Gene Morgan
    Gene Morgan
    • Carlton Gorman
    Granville Bates
    Granville Bates
    • Mr. Hunter
    • (uncredited)
    Jeanne Beeks
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    William Begg
    William Begg
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Ferike Boros
    Ferike Boros
    • Mrs. Sarah Rubens
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Leo McCarey
    • Writers
      • Viña Delmar
      • Josephine Lawrence
      • Helen Leary
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    • Trivia
      When Leo McCarey received his 1938 Best Director Oscar for Die schreckliche Wahrheit (1937), he reportedly said that he got it for the wrong film, a clear reference to his fondness for this film.
    • Goofs
      Nellie'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?

    • Connections
      Featured in Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      When a St. Louis Woman Comes Down to New Orleans
      (1934) (uncredited)

      Written by Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow and Gene Austin

    User reviews91

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    9/10
    It'll make you call your mother, that's for sure
    One of the few American movies to look seriously (and reasonably honestly) at old age, this 1937 melodrama won wonderful reviews, but apparently it was so sad that audiences couldn't bear to look at it. While McCarey was justly celebrated for his sensitive direction, let's start with the shrewd, shaded screenplay, where nobody's entirely good or bad: The children do mean well, but let selfishness intervene; the aged parents are victims, but they're also unavoidably inconvenient and occasionally annoying. It is, unfortunately, a timeless topic -- parents turning into dependent children, children turning into their parents' parents, and the government yammering ineffectually about the problem decade after decade.

    McCarey spins the tale out with subtle humor -- just a wink from Victor Moore, a visual aside by Beulah Bondi, says more than several lines of dialogue would. Plus, this is a couple whose passion has survived the years; they can't keep their hands off each other. The notion's a bit hard to swallow, perhaps a contrivance to tilt the viewer's sympathies more in their direction and away from the thoughtless middle-aged kids. But it does work dramatically and makes the last 20 minutes or so almost unbearably poignant. And the last shot, of Bondi, is unforgettable; it's up there with Garbo in "Queen Christina."
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    • marcslope
    • May 7, 2002

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    • Release date
      • July 22, 1937 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Make Way for Tomorrow
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,416
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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