Father of the Bride

Best Picture nominee is a comedy of manners concerning a harried middle-class lawyer who frets over the work, expense and frenzy surrounding the engagement and wedding of his precious daughter. Spencer Tracy, in the title role, was nominated for Best Actor. The film spawned the 1951 sequel, “Father’s Little Dividend,” and was remade in 1991 with Steve Martin as the Dad., Timeless comedy in which father Spencer Tracy looks back on the events leading up to his daughter’s (Elizabeth Taylor) fraught and expensive wedding., Stanley Banks is a good father who adores his beautiful daughter Kay and his well-ordered life, a life that is thrown into chaos when Kay announces her engagement. A classic MGM comedy, the story is told via flashback and chronicles the many travails, financial and emotional, suffered by Stanley (Spencer Tracy) as he tries to give Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) a wedding to remember. A sequel, Father’s Little Dividend, followed. In 1991, a remake of Father of the Bride starring Dianne Keaton and Steve Martin was a minor hit., A doting father (Spencer Tracy) faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) marries in Father of the Bride (1950), directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Chinese subtitles., Timeless comedy in which father Spencer Tracy looks back on the events leading up to his daughter’s fraught and expensive wedding.