Academy Award winners Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor star in this classic comedy about a devoted father's survival from the time his daughter announces her engagement until the last guest departs from the wedding and reception as The Father of the Bride.

Attorney Stanley T. Banks (Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Adam's Rib) finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay (Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor - Stalag 17), while wife Ellie (Joan Bennett) and son Tommy (Russ Tamblyn - West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) burst with enthusiasm for Kay's wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a "son" offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who's all grown up now with a life of her own.

Maybe everything will work out that is, if Stanley can accept Buckley and survive the wedding. And who's paying for that? Well, naturally, the Father Of The Bride.

CAST AND CREW

Spencer Tracy Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor Vincente Minnelli

GENRE

Comedy

CERTIFICATE

Suitable for all.

RUN TIME

1 hour 29 minutes

RELEASED

1950