Dinner at Eight

     

Dinner at Eight1933

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 111 minutes

MGM originally promoted Dinner at Eight by touting the "all-star cast," but this is no run-of-the-mill omnibus picture. On the contrary, rather than cramming as many big names as possible into a lumbering vehicle, the movie's impeccably cr… more »


I'd have to sit down and watch and re-watch the scene but Billie Burke's tirade when she finds out the Ferncliffs aren't coming to dinner is a gem. It starts when the cook informs her there will be no aspic for dinner, Rickie is in jail and Gustav is dying for all she knows. Then Oliver and Paula tell her they really don't want to be part of the entire evening. It ends with "I'M the one who should be in bed! I'M the one in trouble! You don't know what trouble is...EITHER of you!"

Funniest and most entertaining scene in the entire movie.

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