Chicken Every Sunday

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

HERE'S YOUR DISH

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Date of release
1949-01-18
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Director
George Seaton

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Arizona

Chicken Every Sunday is a 1949 American comedy film directed by George Seaton. The screenplay by Seaton and Valentine Davies is based on the 1944 play of the same title by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, which was based on the memoir by Rosemary Taylor.

Production

Warner Bros. originally bought the film rights to Rosemary Taylor's novel in August 1944, and the Epstein brothers fashioned a script from the stage play they had adapted from Taylor's book. Mervyn LeRoy was signed to direct the film, but Warners then sold the property to 20th Century Fox. Mary C. McCall Jr. wrote a treatment of the story, but final credit for the screenplay went to director George Seaton and Valentine Davies.

Among the actors rumored to be considered for or actually cast in major roles before filming began were John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Henry Fonda, Jeanne Crain, and Florence Bates. The film was shot on location in the Tucson Mountains and in the Nevada towns of Gardnerville, Minden, Carson City, Virginia City, and Silver City.

In June 1956, The 20th Century Fox Hour, an hour-long anthology series broadcast by CBS, aired The Hefferen Family, based on the Taylor novel. Three years later, Julius J. Epstein, the estate of his late brother Philip, and Taylor filed a copyright infringement/breach of contract suit against the film studio, claiming Fox did not own the television rights to the story. The case was settled out of court for $100,000.

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