Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American drama film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents.

Barkley Bark Victor Moore and Lucy Cooper Beulah Bondi are an elderly couple who lose their home to foreclosure, as Barkley has been unable to find employment because of his age. They summon four of their five childrenthe fifth lives thousands of miles away in Californiato break the news and decide where they will live until they can get back on their feet. Only one of the children, Nell Minna Gombell, has enough space for both, but she asks for three months to talk her husband into the idea. In the meantime, the temporary solution is for the parents to split up and each live with a different child.The two burdened families soon come to find the parents presence bothersome. Nells efforts to talk her husband into helping are halfhearted and achieve no success, and she reneges on her promise to eventually take them. While Barkley continues looking for work to allow him and his wife to live independently again, it is obvious that he has little or no prospect of success. When Lucy continues to speak optimistically of the day that he will find work, her teenage granddaughter bluntly advises her to face facts that it will never happen because of his age. Lucys sad reply is to say that facing facts is easy for a carefree 17yearold girl, but that at Lucys age, the only fun left is pretending that there aint any facts to face ... so would you mind if I just kind of went on pretending? ........

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