Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
They want to live their own lives... Can you blame them?
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
- Date of release
- 1937-05-09
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (231)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Leo McCarey
Casting
- Victor Moore — Barkley Cooper
- Beulah Bondi — Lucy Cooper
- Fay Bainter — Anita Cooper
- Thomas Mitchell — George Cooper
- Porter Hall — Harvey Chase
- Barbara Read — Rhoda Cooper
- Maurice Moscovitch — Max Rubens
- Elisabeth Risdon — Cora Payne
- Minna Gombell — Nellie Chase
- Louise Beavers — Mamie
- Ray Mayer — Robert Cooper
- Ralph Remley — Bill Payne
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American tragedy film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents.
Production
Beulah Bondi, who played "Ma", was younger and wore make-up to appear older.
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