Life with Father
“Here for all!! All the happiness of the play that ran longer, the laughs that were louder than any known before!”
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Genres
Comedy, Family
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Life with Father performed
Budget
$4.7M
Worldwide Gross
$6.5M
Gross Profit
$1.7M
Return
1.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$930K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Clarence Day Sr.
William Powell
Clarence Day Sr.
Vinnie Day
Irene Dunne
Vinnie Day
Mary Skinner
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Skinner
Rev. Dr. Lloyd
Edmund Gwenn
Rev. Dr. Lloyd
Cousin Cora Cartwright
Zasu Pitts
Cousin Cora Cartwright
Clarence Day Jr.
Jimmy Lydon
Clarence Day Jr.
Margaret
Emma Dunn
Margaret
Dr. Humphries
Moroni Olsen
Dr. Humphries
Mrs. Whitehead
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Whitehead
Harlan Day
Derek Scott
Harlan Day
Whitney Benjamin Day
Johnny Calkins
Whitney Benjamin Day
John Day
Martin Milner
John Day
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