Big Hearted Herbert
6.3
“The hit that kept Broadway laughing for one solid year!”
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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Cast
27 people
Aline MacMahon
Elizabeth Kalness
Known for
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Man from Laramie
Guy Kibbee
Herbert Kalness
Known for
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
42nd Street
Lillie Hayward
Orry-Kelly
William Keighley
Patricia Ellis
Alice Kalness
Known for
Block-Heads
Ben Markson
Robert M. Haas
Helen Lowell
Martha
Also in
The Dragon Murder Case
Isn't Life Wonderful
Sophie Kerr
Leo F. Forbstein
Phillip Reed
Andrew Goodrich
Known for
Song of the Thin Man
William Keighley Director · Lillie Hayward Screenplay Ben Markson Screenplay
United States release October 6, 1934 · Produced in United States · Production Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros.
Production
The Vitaphone Corporation
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production
Warner Bros.
Production · Distribution
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · October 3, 1934
Premiere · London
United States · October 6, 1934
Theatrical
United Kingdom
April 15, 1935 · Theatrical
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