Life with Father is a 1947 American comedy film. It tells the true story of Clarence Day, a stockbroker who wants to be master of his house, but finds his wife and his children ignoring him, until they start making demands for him to change his own life. In keeping with the autobiography, all the children in the family are redheads. It stars William Powell and Irene Dunne as Clarence and his wife, supported by Elizabeth Taylor as a beautiful teenage girl with whom Clarence's oldest son becomes infatuated, along with Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon and Martin Milner. Due to the Motion... Picture Production Code standards of the day, the play's last line , "I'm going to be baptized, dammit!" had to be rewritten for the film. The movie was adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart from the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, which was based on the book by Clarence Day, Jr. It was directed by Michael Curtiz.
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| Release date: | August 14, 1947 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Robert Buckner |
| Editor: | George Amy |
| Music by: | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography: | J. Peverell Marley, William V. Skall |
| Screenplay by: | Donald Ogden Stewart |
| Adapted from: | Life with Father |
| Genre: | Comedy |