Il padre della sposa

Titolo originale: Father of the Bride
Regia: Vincente Minnelli |
Anno: 1950
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Romance Dramma
Tag: marriage | engagement |
Cast: Spencer Tracy | Joan Bennett | Elizabeth Taylor | Don Taylor | Billie Burke | Leo G. Carroll | Moroni Olsen | Melville Cooper | Taylor Holmes | Paul Harvey | Frank Orth | Russ Tamblyn | Tom Irish | Marietta Canty | Richard Alexander | Don Anderson | William Bailey | Fay Baker | Lucile Barnes | Oliver Blake | Lillian Bronson | Joe Brown Jr. | Frank Cady | Aileen Carlyle | Carleton Carpenter | Gene Coogan | Paul Cristo | Oliver Cross | Lucille Curtis | Roy Damron | Boyd Davis | Chris Drake | Jacqueline Duval | Ella Ethridge | Estelle Etterre | Betty Farrington | Janey Fay | Charles Ferguson | Bess Flowers | Edward Gargan | Mickey Golden | Herschel Graham | William E. Greene | William Haade | Sherry Hall | Bradford Hatton | Jim Hayward | Thomas Browne Henry | Stuart Holmes | Art Howard | Frank Hyers | Walter Kelley | Ann Kunde | Peggy Leon | Beverly Luff | Billy Mahan | Thomas Martin | Paul Maxey | Paul Maxey | Mickey McCardle | Philo McCullough | Russell Meeker | Harold Miller | Patricia Miller | Roger Moore | Sol Murgi | Forbes Murray | William H. O'Brien | Gil Perkins | Ralph Peters | Lee Phelps | Dorothy Phillips | William Phillips | Frank Richards | Dewey Robinson | Fred Santley | Cosmo Sardo | Scott Seaton | Erin Selwyn | Charles Smith | Mary Jane Smith | Douglas Spencer | Harry Stanton | Larry Steers | Brick Sullivan | Floyd Taylor | Peter M. Thompson | Nancy Valentine | Wendy Waldron | Johnny Walsh | Willard Waterman | Dick Wessel | Jeff York |

La diciannovenne Kay confessa al padre Stanley di voler sposare il ragazzo di cui si è innamorata. L'uomo, oltre alla tristezza per l'imminente distacco dalla figlia, viene travolto dai turbinosi quanto costosi preparativi per le nozze, che coinvolgono invece in maniera entusiastica la moglie.

Approfondimenti

In the Italian-dubbed version, the original names were changed with Italian names: Stanley became Sa [...] D
When Spencer Tracy gazes at a childhood photo of his daughter and a horse, it's likely a nod to Eliz [...] D
Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Bennett played the role of Amy March in big-screen adaptations of "Little [...] D
One of the engagement party guests remarks that six months after his daughter's extravagant wedding, [...] D
The picture on the nightstand at which Spencer Tracy looks was a real-life photo of Elizabeth Taylor [...] D
Fredric March, Charles Laughton, and Walter Pidgeon were in the running for the title role. D
Spencer Tracy wanted Katharine Hepburn for his screen wife, but it was felt that they were too roman [...] D
In the opening narrative, Spencer Tracy says it all began three months prior. In reality, three mont [...] D
Included amongst the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the Top 100 Funniest American Movies. D
The hand painted wooden tray Elizabeth Taylor received as her first wedding gift was a must-have for [...] D
The premiere took place twelve days after Elizabeth Taylor's real-life May 6, 1950, marriage to Conr [...] D
Spencer Tracy was nominated for Best Actor, but lost to José Ferrer in Cirano di Bergerac (1950). [...] D
Janey Fay's debut. D
In this movie, one of the gifts Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) gets as a present is a Venus de Milo statue w [...] D
Spencer Tracy opens the film by breaking the fourth wall to begin the story. He continues to narrate [...] D
Russ Tamblyn appeared on I segreti di Twin Peaks (1990). One episode was directed by Diane Keaton, w [...] D
The June 10 date of Kay and Buckley's wedding was a nod by director Vincente Minnelli to his wife, J [...] D
Jack Benny badly wanted the lead role, but was deemed unsuitable. D
Dame Elizabeth Taylor's real life first marriage took place on May 6, 1950, a month before this film [...] D
When Elizabeth Taylor's Kay is viewing her bridal reflection in the mirror, it is the traditional la [...] D
MGM gave Elizabeth Taylor a wedding gift of a one-off wedding dress designed by Helen Rose (a move a [...] D
Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor share the same birthday, February 27th. D
Jacqueline Duval's debut. D
"Theater Guild on the Air" broadcast a sixty-minute radio adaptation of this movie on February 25, 1 [...] D
Although one of the engagement party guests asks for a couple of Coca-Colas ("Cokes"), the bottle sh [...] D
The Production Code was still in force when this film was released. Twin beds for married couples we [...] D
It is the only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year not to win any Academy Awards. D