Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Funnier than "Father of the Bride!"
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
- Date of release
- 1951-04-05
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (77)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Director
- Vincente Minnelli
- Collection
- Father of the Bride (Spencer Tracy) Collection
Casting
- Spencer Tracy — Stanley Banks
- Joan Bennett — Ellie Banks
- Elizabeth Taylor — Kay Dunstan
- Don Taylor — Buckley Dunstan
- Billie Burke — Doris Dunstan
- Moroni Olsen — Herbert Dunstan
- Richard Rober — Police Sergeant
- Marietta Canty — Delilah
- Russ Tamblyn — Tommy Banks
- Tom Irish — Ben Banks
- Hayden Rorke — Andrew Nordell
- Paul Harvey — Reverend Galsworthy
Interesting facts
Father's Little Dividend is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor. The film is the sequel to Father of the Bride (1950).
Production
Father of the Bride was such a hit at the box office and with critics that MGM rushed a sequel into production in 1950. Its working title was Now I Am a Grandfather.
Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett had appeared in films together at Fox two decades earlier, including Me and My Gal, in which their characters marry, and She Wanted a Millionaire.
According to film critic Leonard Maltin, this film was one of the first examples of a modern film sequel.
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