Make Way for Tomorrow Page #8

Synopsis: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PASSED
Year:
1937
91 min
505 Views


I'm in love

With you

Oh. That's funny, isn't it?

We've known all along that we're probably

the most good-for-nothing bunch of kids

who were ever raised,

but it didn't bother us much

until we found out that Pop knew it too.

Doesn't look as though

they're even coming by.

No, I don't think so.

Well, we ought to be getting to the station.

How much time have we got?

- About a minute and a half.

- What?

- Well, two minutes maybe.

- Two minutes?

Why on earth didn't you tell us?

That wasn't a very nice thing to do, George.

I think so. I kind of thought

they'd like to be alone.

But if we don't go to the station,

they'll think we're terrible.

- Aren't we?

- You're tellin' us right, brother.

I can't understand

what happened to the children.

Right here.

Well, I... I guess this is it.

- It looks like a very nice train.

- Uh-huh.

I hear they serve very good food on trains.

Well, give Addie my love,

and tell her to take good care of you.

Well, you'll very likely

see her soon yourself.

I'll get a job out there,

and I'll send for you right away.

I don't doubt that, Bark.

You'll get a job. Of course you will.

- All aboard.

- They didn't give us much time, did they?

- Goodbye, Lucy dear.

- Goodbye, darling.

In case I don't see you again...

- What?

- Well, anything might happen.

The train could jump off the track.

If it should happen

that I don't see you again,

it's been very nice knowing you,

Miss Breckenridge.

Bark, that's probably

the prettiest speech you ever made.

And in case I don't see you a...

Well, for a little while.

I just want to tell you, it's been lovely.

Every bit of it.

The whole 50 years.

I'd sooner have been your wife, Bark,

than anyone else on earth.

Oh, thank you, Lucy.

All aboard!

Get going, Pa.

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Viña Delmar

Viña Delmar (January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s. She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publication of her risqué novel, Bad Girl, which became a bestseller in 1928. Delmar also wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy, The Awful Truth, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in 1937. more…

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