Factual error: After the credits, at the beginning it shows "New York 1883" but in an early scene when Powell is reading the newspaper in his study he is complaining about the Mayor of New York whom he calls "Honest Hugh Grant." Hugh J. Grant did not become mayor until 1889.
Life with Father (1947)
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, William Powell, Edmund Gwenn, Irene Dunne
Genres: Comedy
Father: I'm going to be baptized.
Harlan: I guess the minister is coming to baptize father so he won't have to go to hell.
Whitney: He can't be baptized in a house. You gotta have water.
Harlan: We have lots of water.
Whitney: Not the right kind.
Father: Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
