Dinner at Eight
HERE IS THE SCREEN'S CLIMAX OF GLAMOR AND THRILL THAT RAN OVER A YEAR ON BROADWAY! THE STAGE SMASH NOW A SENSATIONAL FILM TRIUMPH!
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- Drama
- Comedy
Overview
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Keywords
- new york city
- alcoholism
- great depression
- adultery
- extramarital affair
- businessman
- based on play or musical
- social satire
- dinner party
- unhappy marriage
- corrupt businessman
- blackmail
- debt
- socialite
- financial problem
- fading star
- stage actress
- pre-code
- heart condition
- stage actor
- financier
- eviction
- socialite party
- shipping magnate
- shipping company
- suicide by gas
- theatrical agent
- theatre producer
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 22, 1933
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Marie Dressler,John Barrymore,Wallace Beery,Jean Harlow,Lionel Barrymore,Lee Tracy,Edmund Lowe,Billie Burke,Madge Evans,Jean Hersholtand 19 more
- Director
- George Cukor
- Producer
- David O. Selznick
- Cinematography
- William H. Daniels
- Music
- William Axt
- Budget
- $435,000
- Revenue
- $2,156,000
- IMDb
- tt0023948