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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1950 DVD Release: 05/13/2003 Format: DVD - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy, Domestic Comedy See Also: Father of the Bride

Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely middle-class lawyer whose daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) announces that she's going to marry her beau Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor). From that point on, everything in Stanley's life is turned upside down. His wife Ellie (Joan Bennett) wants Kay to have the kind of formal wedding that she and Stanley never had, and between meeting his soon-to-be in-laws, the socially prominent Herbert and Doris Dunstan (Moroni Olsen and Billie Burke), his man-to-man talk with the groom, hosting the engagement party, financing the increasingly lavish wedding, and wondering if Kay and Buckley will resolve their differences before arriving at the altar, Stanley barely has time to deal with his own considerable anxieties about his advancing age and how his "little girl" became a grown woman. Director Vincente Minnelli reunited with the principal cast a year later for a sequel, Father's Little Dividend; and the movie was remade in 1991 with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Spencer Tracy - Stanley T. Banks
Elizabeth Taylor - Kay Banks
Joan Bennett - Ellie Banks
Don Taylor - Buckley Dunstan
Billie Burke - Mrs. Doris Dunstan

Vincente Minnelli's original 1950 version of Father of the Bride arrives on DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono and subtitles are offered in a veritable plethora of languages, including English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai. Supplemental materials include a pair of vintage newsreels involving Elizabeth Taylor and Harry Truman, production notes, and the original theatrical trailer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide