Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
The hit that kept Broadway laughing for one solid year!
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
- Date of release
- 1934-10-06
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- William Keighley
Casting
- Aline MacMahon — Elizabeth Kalness
- Guy Kibbee — Herbert Kalness
- Patricia Ellis — Alice Kalness
- Helen Lowell — Martha
- Phillip Reed — Andrew Goodrich
- Robert Barrat — Jim
- Henry O'Neill — Goodrich Sr.
- Marjorie Gateson — Amy Godrich
- Nella Walker — Mrs. Goodrich
- Junior Durkin — Junior Kainess
- Jay Ward — Robert Kainess
- Claudia Coleman — Mrs. Havens
Interesting facts
Big Hearted Herbert is a 1934 domestic comedy film starring Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee as a middle-aged couple. It is based on the Broadway play of the same name by Sophie Kerr and Anna Steese Richardson, which was in turn based on the short story "Chin-Chin" by Kerr. It was remade in 1940 as Father Is a Prince.
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