Written by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufmann

Directed by Robert G. Garrigues

Sheridan Whiteside, famous critic, celebrity, lecturer, radio personality and by many accounts world's rudest man, having dined at the home of the Stanley's, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A six week confinement follows in the Stanley living room. Unable to go out into the world, Whiteside brings the world to visit him. He physically overtakes the house, insinuates himself in family affairs, and becomes the occasion for a nightmarish Twelve Days of Christmas.