First Monday Fab 40’s Films with Jon Boschen: The Man Who Came To Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family. This Christmas Comedy is perfect to ring in the season. While on a speaking tour in Ohio, opinionated and arrogant radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) injures himself slipping on ice and becomes an unexpected houseguest for a prominent area family, the Stanleys. Whiteside proceeds to make brash proclamations and offer his unsolicited advice to the family members. When a romance begins between Whiteside’s assistant, Maggie Cutler (Bette Davis), and a local reporter, Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis), he interferes with that as well.

CAST: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke

DIRECTOR: William Keighley

RUN TIME: 112 min