Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
- Original title
- Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
- Year
- 1942
- Running time
- 85 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Nunnally Johnson. Play: Emlyn Williams
- Cast
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- Monty Woolley
- Ida Lupino
- Cornel Wilde
- Sara Allgood
- Melville Cooper
- J. Edward Bromberg
- William Demarest
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- Music
- Cinematography
Edward Cronjager (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
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