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Dinner at Eight

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Dinner at Eight
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NR,1hr 50min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1933
Director:
George Cukor
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery  ...more
Synopsis: Based on the Broadway hit by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, Dinner at Eight is a near-flawless comedy/drama with an all-star cast at the peak of their talents. Social butterfly Mrs. Oliver Jordan (Billie Burke) arranges a dinner party that will benefit the busines of her husband (Lionel Barrymore). Among the invited are a crooked executive (Wallace Beery), who is in the process of ruining Jordan; his wife (Jean Harlow), who is carrying on an affair with a doctor (Edmund Lowe); a fading matinee ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
Dinner at Eight is, above all else, about changes: changes in society where graceful old money is about to be supplanted by the new and crass; changes in the motion picture business where talkies turn silent stars into alcoholic has-beens; and changes in industry, where, according to Jean Harlow's brassy Kitty Packard, "machines are taking the place of every profession." After which observation, of ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Marie Dressler
Carlotta Vance
John Barrymore
Larry Renault
Wallace Beery
Dan Packard
Jean Harlow
Kitty Packard
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