Dinner at Eight plot
"HERE IS THE SCREEN'S CLIMAX OF GLAMOR AND THRILL THAT RAN OVER A YEAR ON BROADWAY! THE STAGE SMASH NOW A SENSATIONAL FILM TRIUMPH!"
Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke), the wife of a New York shipping magnate (Lionel Barrymore) on his last legs, is oh so busy organizing a dinner party, where a British lord and lady will be present. Also invited will be an actor, Larry Renault, whose glory days are numbered, Carlotta Vance, a film diva from a bygone era, Dan Packard, an influential Texan businessman, who is surreptitiously trying to buy up the Jordan Line, his bored wife Kitty (Jean Harlow), who feels neglected and so reconciles with the family doctor, Dr. Wayne Talbot, who is also invited with his wife.