The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Directors

William Keighley

Cast

Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante

The story

While passing through the small town of Mesalia, Ohio, during a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic New York radio personality Sheridan Whiteside injures his hip after slipping and falling on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys, a prominent family with whom he is supposed to dine as a publicity stunt. He insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holidays, to which they agree to avoid a threatened $150,000 lawsuit with Thomas E. Dewey as his attorney.

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