‘Father of the Bride’: A Playful Look at Poignant Traditions

Spencer Tracy plays the father of the bride (Elizabeth Taylor). The amusing film might help dads everywhere be at ease when a daughter marries.

Stanley T. Banks (Spencer Tracy) takes his daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) down the aisle, in “Father of the Bride.” MovieStillsDB

NR | 1h 32m | Comedy | 1950

The film “Father of the Bride,” based on a novel of the same name, pokes good-hearted fun at a doting father contending with the fact that, as he gives his daughter away in marriage, his baby girl isn’t a baby anymore. Amid the laughs, it also salutes the sanctity of the traditions of marriage and family.