Una coppia di anziani è costretta a separarsi quando perde la casa e nessuno dei loro cinque figli è disposto ad accoglierli entrambi.Una coppia di anziani è costretta a separarsi quando perde la casa e nessuno dei loro cinque figli è disposto ad accoglierli entrambi.Una coppia di anziani è costretta a separarsi quando perde la casa e nessuno dei loro cinque figli è disposto ad accoglierli entrambi.
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But Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore who are in relatively good health all things considered are not entering the twilight years of a happy life together without some big problems. The family homestead as did many family homesteads during the Depression has been taken by the bank, forcing Victor and Beulah to look to their children for help.
In those days that's exactly what used to happen. But none of their five children can take on both of them, they have no room. So Beulah goes to live with son Thomas Mitchell and his wife and daughter Fay Bainter and Barbara Read. Moore goes to live with daughter Elizabeth Risdon and husband Ralph Remley. In both households the parents are made to feel in the way and in some respects they were.
It was the cruelest kind of punishment to separate two people who spent half a century together. But that's what happens to both. Before the end of the film, the two spend a day in New York reminiscing of lost youth and the good times therein.
Moore and Bondi were around the same age as their 'children' and were made to look much older. Bondi made a specialty of playing much older than she was and in fact did live into her nineties. As for Moore though he was doing character roles now, he was a big comedy star on the Broadway stage going back to the ragtime era. His biggest role on Broadway was co-starring with Fay Templeton in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes From Broadway.
Especially in the last half hour Moore and Bondi will pull all the emotional restraints from your soul. They really do become an idealized version of parents and grandparents. Make Way For Tomorrow is heartstring touching movie and hasn't dated one bit.
"Make Way for Tomorrow" has joined my very personal list of the greatest American movies. Its direction is so transparent, one might think it wasn't directed at all, but spontaneously happened in front of the camera. The acting is so unforced and natural, you might think you are watching your neighbors. Of course, such acting and direction are really difficult to achieve, so I wonder why I had not come across this masterpiece before.
Orson Welles is reported to have said it could make a stone cry. He was right. When I watched this movie, I certainly cried for the first time in about five years, having been unable to do so before I saw this incredible film that validates cinema. (Why not cry before this? PTSD, father died, partner died, a car hit me resulting in major injuries.) Don't be put off by thoughts of downer subject matter; if you love life and love cinema, you owe it to yourself to see this great, great movie.
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- QuizWhen Leo McCarey received his 1938 Best Director Oscar for L'orribile verità (1937), he reportedly said that he got it for the wrong film, a clear reference to his fondness for this film.
- BlooperNellie's arm jumps from her ear to her lap when she says, "I'll have to talk to Harvey about it."
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Rhoda Cooper: Why don't you face facts, Grandma?
Lucy Cooper: [patting Rhoda's hand] Oh, Rhoda! When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're seventy... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?
- ConnessioniFeatured in Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today (2010)
- Colonne sonoreWhen a St. Louis Woman Comes Down to New Orleans
(1934) (uncredited)
Written by Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow and Gene Austin
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