talisencrw
Excellent. Part of my TCM Jean Harlow 4-pack, and the bonus feature-length doc on Harlow's short life and career is exemplary. Highly recommended to any Pre-Code connoisseurs--and I know you're out there...
Dinner at Eight
- Comedy
- Drama
12/22/1933
111
NR
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!
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.
- Director:
- Revenue:
- $2,156,000
- Budget:
- $435,000
- adultery
- new york city
- businessman
- blackmail
- great depression
- based on play or musical
- alcoholism
- social satire
- debt
- extramarital affair
- socialite
- pre-code
- eviction
- financial problem
- heart condition
- financier
- shipping magnate
- dinner party
- socialite party
- shipping company
- unhappy marriage
- stage actress
- fading star
- suicide by gas
- corrupt businessman
- theatrical agent
- theatre producer
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Cast
Marie DresslerCarlotta Vance
John BarrymoreLarry Renault- Wallace BeeryDan Packard
- Jean HarlowKitty Packard
- Lionel BarrymoreOliver Jordan
- Lee TracyMax Kane
- Edmund LoweDr. Wayne Talbot
- Billie BurkeMillicent Jordan
- Madge EvansPaula Jordan
- Jean HersholtJo Stengel
- Karen MorleyLucy Talbot
- Louise Closser HaleHattie Loomis
- Phillips HolmesErnest DeGraff
- May RobsonMrs. Wendel
- Grant MitchellEd Loomis
- Phoebe FosterMiss Alden
Reviews
barrymost
One of great director George Cukor's best films, Dinner at Eight is a prime example of a Pre-Code era classic, and an excellent star vehicle for the combined multifarious talents of Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Brothers Barrymore (Lionel and John), Jean Harlow, and Billie Burke, among others. Coupled with the great acting is the offbeat and alternately dramatic and humorous story line of the flighty hostess who plans an extravagant dinner party for a wealthy and highly-esteemed British couple who never do show up. The audience is introduced one by one to the various guests, as well as the host and hostess, and by the conclusion of the film, the viewer knows how and why each of them has chosen whether or not to accept the invitation, wit...