Make Way for Tomorrow

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Make Way for Tomorrow
Directed by	Leo McCarey
Produced by	Leo McCarey Adolph Zukor
Written by	Viña Delmar Henry Leary and Noah Leary (play) Josephine Lawrence (novel The Years Are So Long)
Starring	Victor Moore Beulah Bondi
Music by	George Antheil Victor Young
Cinematography	William C. Mellor
Editing by	LeRoy Stone
Distributed by	Paramount
Release date(s)	May 9, 1937
Running time	91 min.
Language	English
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Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 melodrama 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 in.

The supporting cast includes Thomas Mitchell, who played Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone with the Wind (1939) and "Uncle Billy" in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

The film was written by Viña Delmar, from a play by Henry Leary and Noah Leary, which was in turn based on the novel The Years Are So Long by advice columnist Josephine Lawrence.

McCarey believed that this was his finest film.^{[citation needed]} When he accepted his Best Director Oscar for The Awful Truth, he said "Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture." Orson Welles reportedly said of the film, "It would make a stone cry," ^[1] and rhapsodized about his enthusiasm for the film in his booklength series of interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles. In Newsweek Magazine famed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris named the film his number one most important film, stating "The most depressing movie ever made, providing reassurance that everything will definitely end badly." ^[2]