Dinner at Eight (1933) VHS 1988

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## Opening Logos

* Walt Disney Classics
* Walt Disney Pictures

### Opening

* A Walt Disney FEATURE Production
* Walt Disney as Pepino the Boy in
* "Dinner at Eight"
* Based on "Dinner at Eight" 1932 play by: George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
* With the Voice Talents of:
	+ Marie Dressler as Carlotta Vance, an aging actress, destitute, dealing with the loss of prestige
	+ Lionel Barrymore as Oliver Jordan, a kind businessman whose business is failing
	+ Billie Burke as Millicent Jordan, his wife, a shallow, wealthy socialite
	+ Madge Evans as Paula Jordan, the Jordans' slightly rebellious daughter
	+ Wallace Beery as Dan Packard, a successful, crooked bully of a businessman
	+ Jean Harlow as Kitty Packard, a lonely, conceited woman and wife of Dan Packard
	+ John Barrymore as Larry Renault, a washed-up, drunken actor
	+ Lee Tracy as Max Kane, Larry Renault's desperate agent
	+ Edmund Lowe as Dr. Wayne Talbot, an unfaithful husband, doctor to the rich, especially Kitty Packard
	+ Karen Morley as Lucy Talbot, Wayne Talbot's long-suffering wife
	+ Jean Hersholt as Jo Stengel, a theatrical agent and producer
	+ Phillips Holmes as Ernest DeGraff, fiancé of Paula Jordan
	+ Louise Closser Hale, as Hattie Loomis, Millie's cousin, last-minute dinner guest
	+ Grant Mitchell, as Ed Loomis, Hattie's husband, reluctant dinner guest
* Photographed in Cinecolor
* United Artists Picture
* Recorded by R.C.A System
* Copyright MCMXXXIV Walt Disney Productions, L.T.D
* Approved MPPDA Certificate No. 2828
* Direction: Tex Avery, Romeo Muller, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Rudolf Ising, William Hanna, Robert McKimson, Joseph Barbera, Robert Clampett, Hugh Harman, Michael Lah, Frank Tashlin, Arthur Davis, Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, Dick Lundy, Tom Palmer, Izzy Sparber, Robert Allen, Preston Blair, Bernard B. Brown, Gene Deitch, Earl Duvall, Dan Gordon, George Gordon, Ben Hardaway, Jack King, Maurice Noble, Hawley Pratt, Dave Tendlar, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Burt Gillett, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Charles Lamont, Hamilton Luske, Charles A. Nichols, Wolfgang Reitherman, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, Ford Beebe Jr., Jim Handley, Jack Hannah, T. Hee, Dick Huemer, Ward Kimball, James Algar, Les Clark, Jack Cutting, Walt Disney, Riley Thomson, Bill Justice, Joshua Meador, Robert Cormack, John Lounsbery, Art Stevens, John McKimson, Max Fleischer
* Animation: Les Clark, Ugo D'Orsi, Billy M. Justice, George Drake, John McKimson, Al Eugster, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Huemer, Arthur Stevens, Frank Kelling, Dick Lundy, Dan MacManus, Richard Williams, John Morehouse, Grim Natwick, Wolfgang Reitherman, Archie Robin, George Rowley, William Hanna, Louie Schmitt, Leonard Sebring, Frank Thomas, Frenchy de Tremaudan, Joseph Barbera, James Tyer, Cy Young
* Story: Pinto Colvig, T. Hee, Ted Sears
* Character Designer: Albert Hurter
* Music: Leigh Harline
* Assistant Director: Graham Heid
* Editor: Boris V. Morkovin
* Layout: Charles Philippi, Xavier Atencio
* Background: Saul Bass, Johnny Jensen, Alan Maley

**The cast also includes**

* Edwin Maxwell as Mr. Fitch, hotel manager
* May Robson as Mrs. Wendel, the cook
* Phoebe Foster as Miss Alden
* Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Copeland
* Hilda Vaughn as Tina
* Harry Beresford as Fosdick
* John Davidson as Mr. Hatfield
* Edward Woods as Eddie
* Anna Duncan as Dora
* Herman Bing as the Waiter
* The plot deals with the Jordan family, who are planning a society dinner, and what they, as well as various friends acquaintances—all of whom have their own problems problems and ambitions‚ do as they prepare for the event. - Walt Disney
* Produced by: Walt Disney, Fred Qrimby

### End Titles

* A Walt Disney Feature Production
* In Cinecolor
* United Artists Pictures