Ben Mankiewicz Intro - The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942)

Man Who Came to Dinner, The - (Original Trailer)

An acerbic critic moves in with a Midwestern family during the holidays in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942).

Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Midwestern Barbarians

Opening credits and introduction of Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) and Monty Woolley (as the title character, Sheridan Whiteside), Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell their small-town hosts, from The Man Who Came to Dinner, from the Kaufman and Hart play.

Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Listen, Repulsive!

Dr. Bradley (George Barbier) exits as author Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) and aide Maggie (Bette Davis) receive their next intrusiom from admirer Harriet (Ruth Vivian) in The Man Who Came To Dinner 1942.

Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Touch Of A Love-Starved Cobra

Signature Kaufman and Hart mayhem as the Stanleys (Billie Burke, Grant Mitchell) prepare for author Whiteside (Monty Woolley), with aide Maggie (Bette Davis) and nurse Preen (Mary Wickes), to emerge in The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942.

Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Hot Sweet Potato

City girl Maggie (Bette Davis), assistant to the radio star stranded in town, visits the skating pond with local reporter Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis) in The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942, from the Kaufman and Hart play.

Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Cream Of Mush

Actress Lorraine Sheldon (Ann Sheridan) plays her big scene leading into the bedlam before Maggie (Bette Davis) and Whiteside (Monty Woolley) launch his Christmas radio-remote broadcast in The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1942.

Man Who Came To Dinner, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) A Lot Of Itinerant Firemen!

Caustic radio celebrity Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) and aide Maggie (Bette Davis) receive local newsman Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis) and paroled convicts in The Man Who Came To Dinner, 1942.