The Man Who Came to Dinner

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942.

Robert Osborne introduces The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1941.

Robert Osborne introduces The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1941.

Dr. Bradley (George Barbier) exits as author Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) and aide Maggie (Bette Davis) receive their next intrusiom from admirer Harriet (Ruth Vivian) in The Man Who Came To Dinner 1942.

Actress Lorraine Sheldon (Ann Sheridan) plays her big scene leading into the bedlam before Maggie (Bette Davis) and Whiteside (Monty Woolley) launch his Christmas radio-remote broadcast in The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1942.

Opening credits and introduction of Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) and Monty Woolley (as the title character, Sheridan Whiteside), Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell their small-town hosts, from The Man Who Came to Dinner, from the Kaufman and Hart play.

Signature Kaufman and Hart mayhem as the Stanleys (Billie Burke, Grant Mitchell) prepare for author Whiteside (Monty Woolley), with aide Maggie (Bette Davis) and nurse Preen (Mary Wickes), to emerge in The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942.

City girl Maggie (Bette Davis), assistant to the radio star stranded in town, visits the skating pond with local reporter Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis) in The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942, from the Kaufman and Hart play.

Caustic radio celebrity Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) and aide Maggie (Bette Davis) receive local newsman Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis) and paroled convicts in The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942.

An acerbic critic moves in with a Midwestern family during the holidays in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942).