Dinner at Eight (film)

Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American PreCode dramedy film directed by George Cukor. Adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferbers play of the same name, it features an ensemble cast of Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, and Billie Burke.

One week before her next society dinner, Millicent Jordan Billie Burke receives word that Lord and Lady Ferncliffe, whom she and her husband Oliver Lionel Barrymore, a New York shipping magnate, had met in England the previous year, have accepted her invitation. Overjoyed by this social coup, Millicent is oblivious to Olivers lack of enthusiasm about the dinner and her daughter Paulas Madge Evans preoccupation about the impending return of her fianc, Ernest DeGraff Phillips Holmes, from Europe. Millicent fusses about finding an extra man for her single female guest, former stage star Carlotta Vance Marie Dressler, who resides in Europe.Meanwhile, Oliver faces distressing news about his shipping business, which has been struck hard by the Depression. Carlotta, a former lover of Oliver, visits Oliver at his office and asks him to buy her stock in the company, but he does not have the money. Dan Packard Wallace Beery, a mining magnate, stops by long enough for Oliver to ask him to buy some company stock. Dan agrees only to consider the proposition, he then brags to his wife Kitty Jean Harlow that he will take the shipping business through deceit. ........

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