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{{Short description|1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse}}
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| name       = Life with Father
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| writer     = [[Howard Lindsay]]<br/>[[Russel Crouse]]<br>Based on the novel by [[Clarence Day]]
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| setting    = The morning room of the Day house on Madison Avenue in the late 1880s
| premiere   = {{Start date|1939|11|08}}
| place      = [[Empire Theatre (41st Street)|Empire Theatre]]<br>New York City
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| genre      = Comedy
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'''''Life with Father''''' is a 1939 play by [[Lindsay and Crouse|Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse]], adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by [[Clarence Day]]. The Broadway production ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks to become the [[List of the longest-running Broadway shows|longest-running non-musical play on Broadway]], a record that it still holds.{{Sfn|Schildcrout|2019|p=62}} The play was adapted into a [[Life with Father (film)|1947 feature film]] and a [[Life with Father (TV series)|television series]].