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Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
American Romance Comedy.
In this sequel to Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan (Elizabeth Taylor) announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father, Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy), having to come to grips with becoming a grandfather.
This movie helped pioneer the modern notion of movie sequels, re-uniting most of the principal cast of Father of the Bride (1950) and picking up the plot from where that movie had ended.
This is a rare example of a Hollywood movie shot while the Hays Code was still operational that openly shows a pregnant woman.
The baby’s nursery is decorated with characters from The Wizard of Oz (1939). In the MGM movie version, Billie Burke – who plays Doris Dunstan – played Glinda the Good Witch.
Father’s Little Dividend was shot in twenty-two days.
| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
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| Written by | Albert Hackett Frances Goodrich |
| Based on | Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Starring | Spencer Tracy Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor Don Taylor Billie Burke Moroni Olsen Richard Rober Marietta Canty Russ Tamblyn Tom Irish Hayden Rorke Paul Harvey |
| Cinematography | John Alton |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Albert Sendrey |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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82 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $941,000 |
| Box office | $4,622,000 |
