Dinner At Eight, a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking Who´s Who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio´s multistarred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired for something grander-and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber stage hit.