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My favourite performance of Spencer Tracy's from all the work he did in thirty-seven years in the movies - here he plays harassed father Stanley Banks struggling to cope with the comedy of his daughter Kay's wedding. Kay is played by the young and beautiful Elizabeth Taylor, who had just been married for the first time in real life; and her intended is played by Don Taylor, an actor I haven't seen in anything else, and can't really remember doing anything of interest in this. The family is completed by Joan Bennett as Tracy's wife, and Rusty (later Russ) Tamblyn as their youngest child. Although the movie does play up the comic potential of the wedding situation - the dad dreams of losing his trousers as he walks down the aisle, for example - it also has moments of poignancy, especially in the last few sequences where the parents dance together in the post-party mess of their once-pristine house. This kind of thing puts the movie above the ordinary, and is exactly what was missing in the Steve Martin remake years later. And don't let me forget Billie Burke and Moroni Olsen as the groom's parents - really funny!Read full review
The best version of this film is the original Father of the bride with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor..check out the scene with the wedding dress and the three way mirror..that scene took my breath away the first time I saw it and it still does..Tracy plays Daddy Banks about to give his only daughter away to a man he can barely stand..as he opens his wallet again and again he reflects on the pain of letting his little girl go as well as the joy in knowing how happy she is..this is one movie film buffs should not be without!! I give this flick 5 out of 5 bars!!
This is the way actors acted in the good old days. Loved this movie!
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I've had on VHS & now I have on dvd, great movie & fairly amusing for vintage or classic movie which is better than the re-make with Steve Martin. I recomend.
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Great value for a wonderful old film.
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