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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
December 11, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
There haven’t been many funny film comedies based on stage plays about critics, but there are a few. Arsenic and Old Lace may be the best of them all, but there’s also a respectable second place in this 1942 film. Monty Woolley, reprising his Broadway role, stars as Sheridan Whiteside, a nationally known critic who fakes an injury so he can keep receiving the hospitality of a well-to-do family. Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan co-star.
 
 
 
 
 
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