Ida was a fabulous actress and an amazing woman.

I Love Ida the actress and director !👍💖💖💖💖💖💖

Good Movie, any Movie with Ida Lupino usually is. She also made Movies as a Writer, Director and producer!

What a wonderful film! Of course although I'm 62 I consider Ida Lupino one of the most talented female Actors, Producers, and Directors of her time..

I love these old movies. Thanks for posting.

Monty Woolley that's enough for me. One of my favorite actors ever.

a movie about unconditional love .... just beautiful and a lot to learn from it!

What a fabulous movie, super dialogue... Poignant!

A very young Cornel Wilde. Another film I have never seen before. Ida Lupino was terrific.

My heart be still=Cornell Wilde and my heart be still with affection as Monty is so like my father in this film. Thank you for sharing this film!

THANKS KZfaq FOR THE MOVIE REALLY LOVE IDA LUPINO

I love Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde!!! Two superb actors!!!

Awesome movie came here for Monty Wooley, but left with all the other actors in my heart. During the holidays The man who came to dinner is a must see in my household, the kids love, love it 💝🤗

What a fab old film, wonderful cast, love it. Thank you for sharing.

What a great, grand drama, so beautifully done, one of the best movies ever. Every detail so perfectly sketched out.

Ida Lupina was an amazing actress! She was never one of my favorites until recently, watching her movies on KZfaq. Extremely talented unlike today’s actors! Thank you fo this lovely movie 💕

I've got to stop reading the comnents when the movie starts, I get. Carried away & miss so much I have to start it over again!! Okay Roll em 🎥

What an excellent movie - as soon as I heard Monty's voice I knew who it was (didn't look at the credits). Ida Lupino is fine - what a mind, what a heart, what a face - triple threat! Thanks for posting this 💖 🇨🇦

Enjoyed the film. Ms. Lupino was a very lovely lady, immensely talented.

I love Ida Lupino. She didn't fight for her rights as a woman. She just believed they were hers, lived accordingly and nobody dared to oppose her. LL

Great little movie, wonderful script and fantastic acting !! Those days are long gone with all the crap they produce these days for movies..... Thanks for posting much appreciated. *******

What a wonderful film, Ida and Monty. He’s a great actor. His characters have been the same. Wonderful . Thank you.🇬🇧

This is the third Ida Lupino movie I've watched in the last two days. Thank you very much.

LOVED this film! Consummate acting on all parts! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much for making it possible to see this wonderful picture. Favorite era.

Magnificent ensemble cast, as each actor is in their own right !

Ida Lupino was not only a beautiful actress, but a very successful director,, thank you for the movie!💋

Lupino & Wilde were great but oh how supporting actors Woolley & Allgood have stolen my heart. Love Cooper & Demarest too. Sad story about the love of a child for her alcoholic father but he is clever enough to know who to marry.

Thank you for this! never saw it or even heard of it - love Ida Lupino and Monty Woolley, both. Agree with comment below - great script and acting. soooo nice! thanks again :)

"Why do you want to marry me?" "Because I want you for my wife." "Don't be silly, what would your wife want with me?"

Wow, 6 minutes in and this is looking like it`s going to be a really good movie, 16 minutes in. This is excellent.

I for one, am hooked on this channel. Love these old movies. I have had not so good experiences with new ones.

I think Ida Lupino and I have the same old moto: "Work like a Dog, think like a Man, and act like a lady." Jackie Kennedy did, too. Both accepted that it would be a "man's world" for a long time, but they were too smart to waste energy bellyaching about it. Ida opened her own studio, IdaLou, rather than succumb to being owned by the studios. (Imagine having to get permission to marry, and if you didn't, you were finished). Wilde was so young and handsome, a fine actor and by all accounts, a good person. He has 'good Eyes'. TY for posting this gem!

The Fog Cutter is a vintage tiki cocktail frequently attributed to being invented by Victor Bergeron that calls for a mixture of several liquors (rum, brandy, gin), the juice of lemon and oranges, orgeat syrup, and cream sherry.

When Monty Woolley belches at the beginning when he is in Santa's chair, and says "what did you expect madam; chimes" has its roots in a true story. Woolley was attending a dinner party one night and belched rather loudly. One woman was so appalled she glared at him and he glared back and said that line. The other guests were so amused that he insisted the line be written into his next movie, which is this one!

I love Cornel Wilde in this film!!! He was such a great actor!!

Wooley is so good at these acid tongue characters, Wilde is solid and Lupino, as always, has an emotional range that's so vast it's a joy to watch.

Great Movie never saw it before. Great cast of actors & actresses. Ty for sharing.

And they call old films sentimental! Loved the scene when he walks out a room the road in front of the traffic! Brilliant movie....thank you

My mother had polio, she was of the same generation as Ida Lupino's character.

Thank you for the wonderful entertainment. Perfect!

😃Good movie 🎥🎞 Great cast ❤👍 Thank you 👍 Oct . 28 , 2023

Some top acting credentials here. Monty Woolley was a professorial fixture at the Yale Drama School for many years. Ida Lupino's family had been actors going back to Renaissance Italy. Primarily known today as a respected director of feature films ("The Hitch-Hiker," "The Trouble With Angels" ) and TV ("Twilight Zone" "Gilligan's Island," and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents") Ida Lupino was also a highly rated actress, lending her sultry beauty and clear diction to parts ranging from a femme fatale ("They Drive By Night") to broad comedy ("PIllow to Post"). Though it was not generally known, she had had polio in her late teens, and though recovered entirely, the experience must have lent a special dimension to her role as a lame woman in "Life Begins At Eight Thirty."

Ida Lupino was AMAZING; thanks for sharing this. (So sorry to see that your other gem is no more; I was looking forward to seeing it.)

My 2nd time enjoying this film. The multi-talented and lovely Ida Lupino was deeply in love with her first husband and Actor Louis Hayward! They were a right match for each other, but WW2 happened and he joined the Marine Corps and came back with 'Battle Fatigue' or 'Shell Shock' as it was referred to back then. Thus, causing their divorce after she tried hard to save it.

This movie is amazing. I loved it.

I've fallen in love with her too artistically.

Gotta love Ida Lupino - always and forever!

40:49 ..as she's reminding him only to drink lemonade, and he remarks: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth" ... is from Act 1, Scene 4 of King Lear, the same play he's protesting about. The full quote is: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child".

When you have Ida Lupino you have something special and add Monty Woolley and you're over the top

I love the prayer at about 15 minutes in to the movie.

I’ll watch any movie with that distinguished man!

Sara Allgood was also the mother in How Green Was My Valley. I learned a line from her in that movie, “Oh, Go blow it out your nose”. I say quite often now

The combination of Ida Lupina and Monty Woolley makes this picture. I am not sure any other duo could have done it. Thank you for posting it.

I am finding that I enjoy everything written and directed by Nunnally Johnson. Who knows this man?

Thank you , I TOTALY am amazed ,one I haven't seen , thank you pizza flixs just a loveing gester I absultly love the 30 s and 40s melodramas , I think I've see them all ,the classics any way. ,just INCASE you find a lovely hear worming it would be very welcoming!

Boy, piano playing must have been the talent of one and all seeing how nearly every one of the 3 dozen golden oldies movies I've waded thru in the past weeks has a piano in every apartment and hotel room the story was set in. 😂

Very enjoyable 🎉 merry Christmas 🎄

I fell in love with Ida the first time I watched the movie "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ". 1939 I believe, with Basil Rathbone.

Wonderful..Thank you so much....

Terrific story & acting in this movie. 🎉

These days an apartment like that would go for a premium with original wood moldings, tall windows and solid wood doors.

Great movie! Thanks!

Wonderful move. Thanks so much.

un film merveilleux

I love that he says to his aunt; "Where did you get that hat?, Rosalind Russell?"... ;))) I love "Rosalind's" taste in hats. She can make something that you'd think you'd be uncomfortable in look fabulous, she was definitely a person who could start a trend!(BostonRachel)EDIT:+SHE HAD GREAT TASTE IN CLOTHES, PUTTING OUTFITS TOGETHER...GREAT TASTE IN GENERAL!

Love the ending. Extra good movie JulieKilburn

sara allgood. also the welsh mother in how green was my valley and a slattern in kitty with paulette goddard and vivien leigh's mother in the lady hamilton. always good to see allgood.

Great Movie...wish "Maddy" had made peace before he left though.... Loved Monty Woolley in The Bishop's Wife (1948) as Professor Wutheridge.

Ida looks so young here!

Monty Wooley - wow!!! although my absolute favorite is "The Man Who Came to Dinner". thank you so much for all these movies - makes me feel like myself again - most of the new bunch of actors (not all though) are so alike and really bore me.

Thanks for the upload! It was outstanding!!

The very ending is the best part of the story!

What a GEM to find hidden away here in KZfaq. I am a "fan" of both "Monty Wooley" of the Whiskers; and a "fan" of "Ida Lupino" and to find these two delightful Actors combining their talents in the One film, which was released way back in 1942, beginning with a Christmas setting. You and I dear viewer here in KZfaq - we receive their blessings. Let us remember them fondly by watching their performances intently until the end. Thanks to this Channel titled: "1930 and 1940's Classics"...I have Added this posting, and a Link to this Channel, in my Channel = Titled: "Take Your Seats"... { which is dedicated to Show Business} I will be Checking to see what "Other treats" I may find in this Channel. That is, after I have finished watching ... "Life Begins At Eight-Thirty"" ... My Thanks & Compliments to the Poster here...Bless You

If you’ve known any real alcoholics, you know this is Hollywood. ‘Days of wine an roses’ closer. Lost weekend”

Thank you I downloaded this

Like going to Wikipedia checking out the actors in this movies. I was surprised of Ida Lupino who's married to Howard Duff for almost 31 years. I guess I wasn't really surprised but that's part of the fun of going to Wikipedia to see who these stars were married to. And checking out if their children became actors.

Cornel Wilde and Ida Lupino were great in this!! Also her father figure!!

I had never seen this before nor even seeing in on the late late show...I loved this very much....thank-you.

THANKS UPLOADER!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Very good 👍

Thanks for the upload !! Did you know the Ida Lupino was married to Louis Heyward.. XD

What a lovely hopeful, along with life's ups and dones , but it's all how you look at it ,,,,,,,is your cup half empty, or half full ! It's all in how you look at things !!

Both Cornell Wilde and Ida Lupino appeard on I Love Lucy episodes. That was the first time I'd ever seen them. I had no idea they, along with other actors that appeared on I.L.Lucy were in movies. So glad I can now see them in their glory days playing dramatic parts. So impressed with Lupino being both a very talented actress but also a director. Good for her, breaking through the glass ceiling so early in motion picture history!

I liked this movie we need more movies like this without cussing and violence in them a very good drama..

I saw her in 1951, a movie she made with Richard Wimark. George Wu, ARCHITECT, A.I.A., NCARB 2018-9-18 And after that I only read about her name as a director, acting no more.

A rather sentimental 1940s view of alchohol addiction. But a good movie, non-the-less.

Ida Lupino!!!! And the hunky Cornell Wilde!!! (volume is set too low.) "Poor" people in the movies living in Manhattan have huge living rooms, a separate kitchen, separate bedrooms. That's not how they really live.

Superb.

OMG, 2nd movie this week with William Demarest AKA Uncle Charlie on my Three Sons!

Thanks you

Thank you for upload. Wonderfully acted High Class cast with serious acting credits and a very good story line. Alcoholism or addiction was not understood well medically & sadly people didn't know a addiction. What's the time you heard exactly what she says oh Maddy you know that's just Maddie. Sadly that's kind of the way people still are today. and unfortunately the medical community has convinced people that they have no ability to cure themselves. Well the first thing you have to do is make a choice that you will no longer be an addict whatever it is Etc. You don't say I'm going to,, you say I won't. Life is a series of choices. We all make choices every single day some of them are harder than others. Until you make that choice you will never get over whatever it is you're trying to overcome. you are the controller not it controlling you. and it can be anything not just alcohol drugs or food. The strive for perfection watching too much TV playing video games when you should be doing other things possibly because you don't want to be where you really need to be Etc. We have to look at our own life and decide what are we willing to be responsible for and, If you're not willing to be responsible don't mess up other people's lives by sticking around in theirs.. I don't mean committing suicide, and never solves anything, and causes more harm. I mean you move away so that you don't make people feel obligated to care for you or stand on your own two feet dig footholds and climb out of that hole inch by inch. I know what it takes, you don't need the answer why to start working on getting well. You just gotta believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel even if that end of the tunnel is 30 years down the road Remember Inch by inch Life's a cinch Yard-by-yard Life is hard Ukn

This movie is like Arthur and Bad Santa rolled into one.

fantastic

Was there anyone of that generation of pretty boys who was quite as stiff as Cornel Wilde? He makes John Derek and Tab Hunter look like Gielgud and Richardson. This script was adapted from a play by the Welsh writer and actor Emlyn Williams in which the daughter was cripple. Hollywood, in this case, screenwriter Nunnally Johnson and Zanuck at Fox, managed to sanitize the story and lighten it up. Monty Wooley was an actor of great charm if not of great depth who misses the pathos of the role. A pleasant diversion that might have been something else in more talented hands.

as a former actress, I am so down with 8:30. The magic no one can understand, unless they've been in theater. Only in these times it's 8:00?

Good movie.

I love any movie with Monty whooley

Shame I can't hear it ..would liked to have watched!

A True Epilogue for my family and friends. Mr UDAY N PANDEY FAMILY LLOYD'S REGISTER SHIPPING LONDON UK