“Make Way for Tomorrow” is an obscure Depression Era drama about an elderly couple who must move in with their children when they loose their home to foreclosure. Director Leo McCarey (“Going My Way” 1944) and screenwriter Vina Delmar did an outstanding job of adapting the heartbreaking 1934 novel “The Years Are So Long” by Josephine Lawrence to the big screen.
The cast was simply outstanding. Veteran actors Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi were a perfect fit as Barkley and Lucy Cooper. Moore starred in films from the silent era in 1915 to his last movie “The Seven Year Itch” (1955) starring Marilyn Monroe. Bondi made a career of playing mothers and grandmothers, including “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart.
The supporting cast includes Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell (soon to become famous as Gerald O’Hara of 1939’s “Gone With The Wind”), Barbara Read, Porter Hall, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Louis Jean Heydt, and Louise Beavers as the Cooper’s maid. “Make Way for Tomorrow” was produced by Leo McCarey and Adolph Zukor and Paramount Pictures.
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
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My Review
“Make Way for Tomorrow” is an obscure Depression Era drama about an elderly couple who must move in with their children when they loose their home to foreclosure. Director Leo McCarey (“Going My Way” 1944) and screenwriter Vina Delmar did an outstanding job of adapting the heartbreaking 1934 novel “The Years Are So Long” by Josephine Lawrence to the big screen.
The cast was simply outstanding. Veteran actors Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi were a perfect fit as Barkley and Lucy Cooper. Moore starred in films from the silent era in 1915 to his last movie “The Seven Year Itch” (1955) starring Marilyn Monroe. Bondi made a career of playing mothers and grandmothers, including “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart.
The supporting cast includes Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell (soon to become famous as Gerald O’Hara of 1939’s “Gone With The Wind”), Barbara Read, Porter Hall, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Louis Jean Heydt, and Louise Beavers as the Cooper’s maid. “Make Way for Tomorrow” was produced by Leo McCarey and Adolph Zukor and Paramount Pictures.