Life With Father

Life With Father

1947 | 1h 58m | Comedy, Biography | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

A New Yorker and her four sons experience love and laughter from their opinionated but well-meaning family patriarch.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Michael Curtiz

CAST

William Powell

Irene Dunne

Elizabeth Taylor

Edmund Gwenn

Zasu Pitts

Jimmy Lydon

Emma Dunn

Moroni Olsen

Martin Milner

Elisabeth Risdon

Derek Scott

Johnny Calkins

Heather Wilde

Monte Blue

Mary Field

Queenie Leonard

Frank Elliott

PRODUCERS

Robert Buckner

WRITERS

Donald Stewart

Clarence Day

Howard Lindsay

Russel Crouse

Host Intros

01:43
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Life With Father (1947)
Intro Aired: Nov 2018
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Life With Father, 1947.
01:45
Dave Karger Intro -- Life With Father (1947)
Intro Aired: Mar 2018
Guest host Dave Karger introduces Life With Father, 1947.
01:52
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Life With Father (1947)
Intro Aired: Jun 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Life With Father, 1947.
01:38
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Life With Father (1947)
Intro Aired: Jun 2016
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Life With Father, 1947.

Related Videos

03:59
Life With Father (1947) -- (Movie Cilp) When We Get To Heaven
Clip
The scene introducing 1880's New Yorker Clarence Day (William Powell), with wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne), sons Clarence, Harlan, Whitney and John (Jimmy Lydon, Derek Scott, Johnny Calkins, Martin Milner), and maid Annie (Heather Wilde), in Life With Father, 1947, directed by Michael Curtiz.
Life With Father -- (Movie Clip) Do You Ever Do Duets?
Clip
Vinnie (Irene Dunne) greets cousin Cora (ZaSuPitts) and friend Mary (Elizabeth Taylor), then introduces sons John (Martin Milner) and Clarence Jr. (James Lydon), in Life With Father, 1947.
Life With Father -- (Movie Clip) Charge Accounts
Clip
Consulting after breakfast with wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne), Clarence Day (William Powell) has a spectacular effect on new maid Annie (Heather Wilde), in Michael Curtiz' Life With Father, 1947.
Life With Father (1947) -- (Movie Clip) A Man's Soul
Clip
When Rev. Lloyd (Edmund Gwenn) seems to aim his sermon at prominent New Yorker Clarence Day (William Powell), he rightly suspects wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne) has intervened, Elizabeth Taylor (as "Mary") in the trailing party, in Life With Father, 1947.
Life With Father - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost in Life With Father (1947).

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