Life with Father
(From left to right) Elizabeth Taylor, William Powell, and Zasu Pitts on a lobby card for Life with Father (1947), directed by Michael Curtiz.
Life with Father
film by Curtiz [1947]
Life with Father, American comedy film, released in 1947, that was based on Clarence Day, Jr.’s best-selling autobiography (1935) of the same name. The film chronicles Day’s childhood growing up in Victorian-era New York under the ironclad rule of his stern but loving father (played by William Powell). Although Clarence Day, Sr., sees himself as master of the household, a number of episodes prove otherwise, notably when his wife, Vinnie (Irene Dunne), persuades him to be baptized. Day’s memoirs had earlier been adapted into a hugely successful Broadway play. Although the film version featured many predictable gags, it drew acclaim ...(100 of 143 words)