Father of the Bride (1950) |
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Other InformationPlot SummaryProud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0042451/plotsummary) TaglineM-G-M Announces the Event of the Season! The Bride gets the THRILLS! Father gets the BILLS! You`re invited . . . to a hilarious wedding ! |
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Father of the Bride (1950) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Ellie Banks: Oh, Stanley. I don`t know how to explain. A wedding. A church wedding. Well it`s, it`s what every girl dreams of. A bridal dress, the orange blossoms, the music. It`s something lovely to remember all the rest of her life. And something for us to remember too. Ben Banks: Can`t be June. I`ve got my final. Why not May?
Ellie Banks: May`s too early.
Tommy Banks: July`s out. I`m going to camp.
Kay Banks: This isn`t a kids party. It`s my wedding and my friends.
Stanley T. Banks: Ellie, what did you mean by?
Kay Banks: No one has to raise a finger. When the time comes, I`ll do everything. And I mean everything.
Ellie Banks: I can imagine that.
Ben Banks: I`m not going.
Kay Banks: Listen! I don`t care if you come or not! Stanley T. Banks: I would like to say a few words about weddings. I`ve just been through one. Not my own. My daughter`s. Someday in the far future I may be able to remember it with tender indulgence, but not now. I always used to think that marriages were a simple affair. Boy meets girl. Fall in love. They get married. Have babies. Eventually the babies grow up and meet other babies. They fall in love. Get married. Have babies. And so on and on and on. Looked at that way, it`s not only simple, it`s downright monotonous. But I was wrong. I figured without the wedding. Stanley T. Banks: You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You`re her oracle. You`re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you`re in a constant state of panic. Stanley T. Banks: Who giveth this woman? "This woman." But she`s not a woman. She`s still a child. And she`s leaving us. What`s it going to be like to come home and not find her? Not to hear her voice calling "Hi, Pops" as I come in? I suddenly realized what I was doing. I was giving up Kay. Something inside me began to hurt.Trivia In the film, one of the gifts Kay gets as a present is a Venus de Milo statue with a clock in the stomach, which Spencer Tracy refers to as a "stinker". This same gift makes its` way into the 1991 re-make among the presents, and is still not received well. Jack Benny badly wanted the lead role but was deemed unsuitable. MGM gave Elizabeth Taylor a wedding gift of a one-off wedding dress designed by Edith Head (a move also designed to promote the film). The premiere of this film took place two days after Elizabeth Taylor`s real-life marriage to "Nicky" Conrad Hilton Jr.. The publicity surrounding the event is credited with helping to make the film so successful. | ||
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