The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Full Movie Starring Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Reginald Gardiner, Grant Mitchell, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Mary Wickes Comedy | Romance | USA | B&W | 112min While on a speaking tour during Christmas season in Ohio, opinionated and arrogant radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) injures himself slipping on ice and becomes an unexpected house guest for a prominent area family, the Stanleys. Whiteside proceeds to make brash proclamations and offer his unsolicited advice to the family members. When a romance begins between Whiteside's assistant, Maggie Cutler (Bette Davis), and a local reporter, Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis), he interferes with that as well. Director: William Keighley