Life with Father
“Here for all!! All the happiness of the play that ran longer, the laughs that were louder than any known before!”
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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Cast
19 people
William Powell
Clarence Day Sr.
Known for
The Thin Man
My Man Godfrey
Irene Dunne
Vinnie Day
Known for
The Awful Truth
Love Affair
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Skinner
Known for
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cleopatra
Edmund Gwenn
Rev. Dr. Lloyd
Known for
The Trouble with Harry
Miracle on 34th Street
Zasu Pitts
Cousin Cora Cartwright
Known for
Greed
Ruggles of Red Gap
Jimmy Lydon
Clarence Day Jr.
Known for
Island in the Sky
Joan of Arc
Emma Dunn
Margaret
Known for
The Great Dictator
Son of Frankenstein
Moroni Olsen
Dr. Humphries
Known for
Notorious
Mildred Pierce
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Whitehead
Known for
The Roaring Twenties
Make Way for Tomorrow
Derek Scott
Harlan Day
Johnny Calkins
Whitney Benjamin Day
Known for
The Boy with Green Hair
Martin Milner
John Day
Known for
Sweet Smell of Success
13 Ghosts
Michael Curtiz Director · Donald Ogden Stewart Writer Howard Lindsay Author
Worldwide gross $6.5M · Budget $4.7M · United States release September 13, 1947
Box office
Budget
$4,710,000
Worldwide gross
$6,455,000
Gross vs. budget
1.4×
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
United States · August 14, 1947
Premiere · Skowhegan, Maine
United States · September 13, 1947
Theatrical
Netherlands
March 7, 2005 · Physical · DVD
Sweden
October 4, 1948 · Theatrical
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