Synopsis
Proud 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.
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Cast
- Spencer TracyStanley T. Banks
- Joan BennettEllie Banks
- Elizabeth TaylorKay Banks
- Don TaylorBuckley Dunstan
- Billie BurkeDoris Dunstan
- Leo G. CarrollMr. Massoula
- Moroni OlsenHerbert Dunstan
- Melville CooperMr. Tringle
- Taylor HolmesWarner
- Paul HarveyReverend Galsworthy
Recommendations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
One of the best comedies MGM made in the 1950s. Although Taylor perfectly embodies an idealized vision of the demure but spirited young bride, this fine film is foremost a showcase for the supple comic drollery of Spencer Tracy. - 100
Chicago Tribune
One of the finest, funniest and most civilized of all Hollywood domestic comedies. [01 Sep 2006, p.C5] - 91
Entertainment Weekly
The scenes between Taylor and Spencer Tracy are sweet and utterly lacking in artifice, and although the movie asks little more than her presence, she provides it with simple, natural grace. - 80
The New York Times
The film, while it packs all the satire of our modern tribal matrimonial rite that was richly contained in the original, also possesses all the warmth and poignancy and understanding that makes the Streeter treatise much beloved. - 80
Time Out
Thoroughly enchanting comedy. - 80
Los Angeles Times
What gives this slender movie its appeal is how Minnelli and writers Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett check out all the huge and tiny steps in the complicated process with such gleeful, and usually wry, detail. [23 Jul 1992, p.13] - 60
The New Yorker
Within its own terms the picture is sensitive and very well done, but it's also tiresomely fraudulent -- an idealization of a safe, shuttered existence, the good life according to M-G-M. - 50
Variety
Minnelli could have timed many of the scenes so that laughs would not have stepped on dialog tag lines. Also he permits the wedding rehearsal sequence to play too long, lessening the comedic effect.
