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Father of the Bride (1950) 7.2
A father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, and the financial and organizational pain of arranging her wedding. Director:Vincente Minnelli |
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Doris Dunstan
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Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords:
wedding | chaos | wedding present | father daughter relationship | empty nest |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 June 1950 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El padre de la novia See more »Filming Locations:
All Saints' Episcopal Church - 504 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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(uncredited)
Written by Rudy Vallee, Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly
Heard in the last scene as Stanley and Ellie dance
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Spencer Tracy wanted Katherine Hepburn for his screen wife, but it was felt that they were too romantic a team to play a happily domesticated couple with children, so Joan Bennett got the part. See more »Goofs
At the party to announce the engagement, Stanley is fixing drinks, and opens two Cokes which spray all over him. In both cases, but especially when he opens the second coke, it is obvious that the spray is coming from the wall cabinet, not from the coke bottle. See more »Quotes
Stanley T. Banks: Right then I knew we'd lost her. She'll always love us of course, but not in the old way. From now on her love will be handed out like a farmer's wife tossing scraps to the family rooster.See more »
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"Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight"(uncredited)
Written by Rudy Vallee, Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly
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"Father of the Bride" is Spencer Tracy's picture. His performance as the overwhelmed father of the bride is outstanding.
The plot is simple. Stanley Banks'(Tracy) daughter Kay (the beautiful teen-aged Elizabeth Taylor) announces her impending marriage to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor). Mother (Joan Bennett) gets into the act and before you know it the bills are mounting and father is going greyer by the minute. There is the usual pre-marriage argument between the two lovers, the ever increasing guest list, a frantic rehearsal and finally the big day itself with father trying to maintain his sanity throughout.
The supporting cast is excellent. Leo G. Carroll is good as the befuddled caterer, Melville Cooper does a funny bit as the church deacon and the still beautiful Billie Burke along with Moroni Olsen appear as the parents of the Groom.
"Father of the Bride" under the able direction of Vincente Minnelli, is the kind of family comedy that we rarely see anymore.