You see the expense of marriage and the way it affects the parents but as it is 70 years old it wasn't super relatable to me especially since I got married in October and this isn't anything close to how my wedding went.The amount of planning that went into this wedding seemed to have been planned in a week and rushed and that didn't sit well to me and a lot of the jokes were lackluster and drawn out but I enjoyed myself enough that I would watch this again one day.I love the Steve Martin remake of this movie so I wasn't prepared to love this version. Before the introduction, Stanley has a private conversation with Buckley, and is pleased to learn that the young man is the head of a small company and that he is capable of providing a comfortable life for Kay.
Stanley's misgivings about the marriage eventually make Ellie anxious, and she insists that Kay introduce them to Buckley's parents. Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. IN 1950 director Vincente Minelli‘s comedy Father of the Bride (adapted from a book of the same title by Edward Streeter) told the story of a man (Spencer Tracy) dealing with his daughter’s upcoming wedding.. A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard (Norman Wooland) and put him back on the throne. Not that I've seen very many but would easily say it's my favorite Minnelli so far if it weren't for I imagine if a major director made something this middle class and conservative today he'd be eaten alive on here. The plans for a lavish wedding continue until the day that Buckley tells Kay that he wants to take her on a fishing trip in Nova Scotia for their According to Frank Miller for TCM, when creating the role for the father, the character was shaped around Spencer Tracy.
No questions asked, just support. Certificate: Passed A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. Shortly after coming to terms with his daughter's marriage, a father faces the prospect of becoming a grandfather. Often, the first one you see is your favorite. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. He was too comedic and couldn’t handle the dramatic aspects of the film. Comedy Certificate: Passed Father of the Bride Awards and Nominations. Father of the Bride was one of the top grossing films of 1950, and received the following Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Spencer Tracy). Every film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award in any category. These films had multiple nominations: 14 nominations: All About Eve 11 nominations: Sunset Boulevard 5 nominations: Born Yesterday and Samson and Delilah 4 nominations: Annie Get Your Gun and The Asphalt Jungle 3 nominations: Broken Arrow, Caged, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines, and The Third Man 2 nominations: Destination Moon, The Flame and the Arrow, Harvey, and … Which motion picture pioneer was known as the "Little Tramp"?
I'll still always think of the Steve Martin one, but I love Spencer Tracy in this.A cute film about a man who doesn't want to see his daughter grow up.
Oscar-winner Spencer Tracy ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") received his fourth nomination as an exasperated banker …
Oh, and the pockets on Elizabeth Taylor's dresses were enormous -- why don't women get pockets like that anymore!
But you enjoy it. Based on Ernest Hemingway's story. FATHER OF THE BRIDE tells the tale of how the once perfectly serene Banks household, led by genial would-be patriarch Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy), deals with the trials and tribulations that come with the wedding of the family's sweet daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) to her earnest suitor Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor).
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