Call It a Day

Call It a Day is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, and Frieda Inescort. Based on the 1935 play Call It a Day by Dodie Smith, the film is about a day in the life of a middle-class London family whose lives are complicated by the first romantic signs of spring.[1]

This article is about the 1937 film. For the 1935 play on which it was based, see Call It a Day (play).
Call It a Day
Theatrical release poster
Directed byArchie Mayo
Screenplay byCasey Robinson
Based onCall It a Day (play)
by Dodie Smith
Starring
Music byHeinz Roemheld
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byJames Gibbon
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • April 17, 1937 (1937-04-17) (USA)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Cast

Production

Soundtrack

Reception

In his May 7, 1937, review, The New York Times' Frank Nugent said that he "enjoyed" the "tolerant and quietly humorous piece", and praised the ensemble cast.[2] Two months later, writing for Night and Day, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review and complained about the self-sanitized story of temptations rejected in the face of infidelity. Greene also complains of the clichéd use of dialogue which includes the stale line "Do you mind if I slip into something more comfortable?" which, Greene adds, "to our astonishment [leads to] the temptress reappear[ing] in just another evening dress."[3]

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See also

References
  1. "Call It a Day (1937) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  2. "THE SCREEN; One More Film of a Last Year's Play Comes to Town: This Being 'Call It a Day' at the Capitol". timesmachine.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  3. Greene, Graham (22 July 1937). "Parnell/Call it a Day". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 0192812866.)


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