Movies Under the Stars

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
B&W Film Screening 

An NCPA & Film Heritage Foundation Presentation

Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore 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 Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema’s purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure.

Director: Leo McCarey
Screenplay: Viña Delmar
Based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence
And a play by Helen and Nolan Leary
Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall & Barbara Read

Admission on a first-come-first-served basis. NCPA Members will get preferential seating till 6.20 pm