Father of the Bride (1950)
- Starring:
- Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, (more)
- Director(s):
- Vincente Minnelli
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Father of the Bride
Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely middle-class lawyer whose daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) announces that she's going to marry her beau Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor). From that point on, everything in Stanley's life is turned upside down. His wife Ellie (Joan Bennett) wants Kay to have the kind of formal wedding that she and Stanley never had, and between meeting his soon-to-be in-laws, the socially prominent Herbert and Doris Dunstan (Moroni Olsen and Billie Burke), his man-to-man talk with the groom, hosting the engagement party, financing the increasingly lavish wedding, and wondering if Kay and Buckley will resolve their differences before arriving at the altar, Stanley barely has time to deal with his own considerable anxieties about his advancing age and how his "little girl" became a grown woman. Director Vincente Minnelli reunited with the principal cast a year later for a sequel, Father's Little Dividend; and the movie was remade in 1991 with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 93 mins
Complete Cast of Father of the Bride
- Spencer Tracy - Stanley T. Banks
- Joan Bennett - Ellie Banks
- Billie Burke - Mrs. Doris Dunstan
- Leo G. Carroll - Mr. Massoula
- Melville Cooper - Mr. Triangle
- Frank Orth - Joe
- Marietta Canty - Delilah
- Brad Hatton - Florist
- Jeff York - Policeman
- Aileen Carlyle - Woman
- Paul Maxey - Heavy Set Man
- Dick Wessel - Moving Man
- John Welsh - Western Union Boy
- Frank Hyers - Duffy
- Chris Drake - Usher
- Wendy Waldron - Bridesmaid
- Ralph Peters - Moving Man
- Jim Hayward - Moving Man
- Jacqueline Duval - Peg
- Frank Cady - Timid Guest
- William E. Green - Sad-faced Man
- Betty Farrington - Guest
- Lillian Bronson - Schoolteacher
- Anne Kunde - Bits in Dream Sequence
- Thomas Brown Henry - Stranger
- Elizabeth Taylor - Kay Banks
- Don Taylor - Buckley Dunstan
- Russ Tamblyn - Tommy Banks
- Moroni Olsen - Herbert Dunstan
- Taylor Holmes - Warner
- Tom Irish - Ben Banks
- Oliver Blake - Man
- Dewey Robinson - Moving Man
- Willard Waterman - Dixon
- Gene Coogan - Barman
- Richard Alexander - Moving Man
- Sherry Hall - Bits
- Douglas Spencer - Organist
- Fay Baker - Miss Bellamy
- Patricia Miller - Wispy Girl
- Joe Brown, Jr. - Moving Man
- Gil Perkins - Moving Man
- Paul Harvey - Rev. A.I. Galsworthy
- Frank Richards - Truck Driver
- William "Bill" Phillips - Foreman of Movers
- Nancy Valentine - Fliss
- Peter Thompson - Usher
- Lee Phelps - Motor Cop
- Carleton Carpenter - Usher
- Mary Jane Smith - Effie
- Director(s):
- Vincente Minnelli
- Writer(s):
- Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
- Producer(s):
- Pandro S. Berman
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Suitable for Children)
- Categories:
- Comedy
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