Directed by:
Leo McCareyCinematography:
William C. MellorCast:
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Minna Gombell, Louise Beavers, Leo McCarey, Ellen Drew (more)Plots(1)
Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring's selfish whims. An inspiration for Ozu's Tokyo Story, Make Way for Tomorrow is among American cinema's purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Lelah Tyler
USA
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Elisabeth Risdon
UK
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Ferike Boros
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Ralph Lewis
USA
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
San Francisco (1936)
Ethel Clayton
USA
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Easy Living (1937)
Rosemary Theby
USA
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Our Relations (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
Howard M. Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Phillips Smalley
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Francis Sayles
USA
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Union Pacific (1939)
Jesse Graves
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Ruth Warren
USA
Best movies:
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Union Pacific (1939)
Gene Morgan
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Sidney De Gray
UK
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Arrowsmith (1931)
Mitchell Ingraham
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Union Pacific (1939)