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Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring’s selfish whims. An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema’s purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure.
Original Release
04/30/1937
US Release
04/30/1937
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Beulah Bondi | Lucy Cooper |
Victor Moore | Barkley 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 |
Ray Mayer | Robert Cooper |
Directors
Writers
Viña Delmar, Josephine Lawrence, Helen Leary, Nolan Leary, Leo Robin
Cast
Name | Character |
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Beulah Bondi | Lucy Cooper |
Victor Moore | Barkley 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 |
Ray Mayer | Robert Cooper |
Ralph Remley | Bill Payne |
Louise Beavers | Mamie |
Louis Jean Heydt | Doctor |
Gene Morgan | Carlton Gorman |
Granville Bates | Mr. Hunter |
Jeanne Beeks | Minor Role |
William Begg | Nightclub Patron |
Ferike Boros | Mrs. Sarah Rubens |
Don Brodie | Man at Employment Agency |
Ralph Brooks | Movie Theatre Doorman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Leo McCarey | Producer |
Adolph Zukor | Producer |