Father of the Bride

Name: Father of the Bride
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: June 16, 1950
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Billie Burke, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Leo G. Carroll

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: June 16, 1950 | Passed

Starring: Billie Burke, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Leo G. Carroll, Melville Cooper, Moroni Olsen, Paul Harvey, Spencer Tracy, Taylor Holmes

Summary: The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 92 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

One of the best comedies MGM made in the 1950s. Although Taylor perfectly embodies an idealized vision of the demure but spirited young bride, this fine film is foremost a showcase for the supple comic drollery of Spencer Tracy. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

One of the finest, funniest and most civilized of all Hollywood domestic comedies. [01 Sep 2006, p.C5]

Lawrence O'Toole

The scenes between Taylor and Spencer Tracy are sweet and utterly lacking in artifice, and although the movie asks little more than her presence, she provides it with simple, natural grace. Read full review

Mark Chalon Smith

What gives this slender movie its appeal is how Minnelli and writers Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett check out all the huge and tiny steps in the complicated process with such gleeful, and usually wry, detail. [23 Jul 1992, p.13]

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Thoroughly enchanting comedy. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Within its own terms the picture is sensitive and very well done, but it's also tiresomely fraudulent -- an idealization of a safe, shuttered existence, the good life according to M-G-M.

One of the bleakest films of a bleak decade. Read full review

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codyz

Jul 22, 2023

Movie is amusing, and at times, poignant.
Tracy and the radiant Elizabeth Taylor are the whole show. Their charisma makes this movie. A lot of the jokes and comedic situations are tame, or fall flat, but the overall feel good vibe, and genuine emotion, and heartbreak of a father realizingMovie is amusing, and at times, poignant.
Tracy and the radiant Elizabeth Taylor are the whole show. Their charisma makes this movie. A lot of the jokes and comedic situations are tame, or fall flat, but the overall feel good vibe, and genuine emotion, and heartbreak of a father realizing he'll be missing his daughter, make this worthwhile viewing.… Expand

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