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Dinner at Eight Details

1933 Certificate TBC
  • Rated:
  • 70
  • from 19 members

The story tells of guests at a society dinner who get more than the meal they were expecting. Read more

Starring Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow
Director George Cukor
Genres Drama

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Dinner at Eight

The story tells of guests at a society dinner who get more than the meal they were expecting.

Starring Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow
Director George Cukor
Certificate Certificate TBC
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1933
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Dinner at Eight

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Lauren Bacall, Marsha Mason and Harry Hamlin head a prestige cast in this updated TV remake of George Cukor's classic 1933 comedy of New York social manners, itself based on the Broadway hit by George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber. The writing and direction may lack the sparkle of the Cukor version, but Bacall turns on the style as acid-tongued pulp novelist Carlotta Vance, and the story surrounding various guests limbering up for a high-society dinner party offers sufficient human interest to hold the attention.

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  • Edna Ferber/George Kaufman play about sophisticated New York society, adapted for the screen by Frances Marion and... read more on Time Out

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19 Member ratings
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  • 70
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  • 60
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  • 30
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