Life with Father

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Life with Father is a 1947 American comedy film, based on the long-running Broadway play, that humorously portrays the strict yet endearing patriarch of a New York family in the 1880s.

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instanceOf film
adaptedFromWorkBy Howard Lindsay NERFINISHED
Russel Crouse NERFINISHED
basedOn Life with Father (play) NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Peverell Marley NERFINISHED
colorProcess Technicolor
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Michael Curtiz NERFINISHED
distributedBy Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
distributorRegion theatrical release in the United States
editedBy George Amy NERFINISHED
filmingStyle live-action
genre comedy film
hasTheme family relationships
patriarchal authority
religion and everyday life
mainCharacter Clarence Day Jr. NERFINISHED
Clarence Day Sr. NERFINISHED
Vinnie Day NERFINISHED
medium feature film
musicBy Max Steiner NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus strict but loving father
narrativeTone humorous
originalLanguage English
playSource autobiographical stories by Clarence Day
playwright Howard Lindsay NERFINISHED
Russel Crouse NERFINISHED
portrays Victorian-era family dynamics
upper-middle-class New York family life
producer Robert Buckner NERFINISHED
productionCompany Warner Bros. NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1947
releaseYear 1947
runtimeMinutes 118
screenwriter Clarence Day Jr. NERFINISHED
Donald Ogden Stewart NERFINISHED
setInLocation New York City
setInTimePeriod 1880s
sourceMaterialGenre stage play
starredActor Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED
Elizabeth Taylor NERFINISHED
Irene Dunne NERFINISHED
Jimmy Lydon NERFINISHED
William Powell NERFINISHED
Zasu Pitts NERFINISHED

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Donald Ogden Stewart notableWork Life with Father
this entity surface form: Life with Father (screenplay)
Howard Lindsay notableWork Life with Father
this entity surface form: Life with Father (play)
Lindsay and Crouse family (theatrical family) notableWork Life with Father
subject surface form: Howard Lindsay
Russel Crouse notableWork Life with Father
William Powell notableWork Life with Father