Based on the play Birthday by Lazlo Bus-Fekete.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
Special features: New video conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris; Creativity with Bill Moyers: A Portrait of Samson Raphaelson (1982), a 30-minute program exploring the screenwriter's life and career; audio seminar with Raphaelson and film critic Richard Corliss recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in 1977; Lubitsch home piano recordings; original theatrical trailer; a new essay by film scholar William Paul.
Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
Director of photography, Edward J. Cronjager ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; music, Alfred Newman.
Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar, Marjorie Main, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Subtitled for the hearing impaired (SDH).
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