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Father's Little Dividend is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli released in USA on 27 april 1951 with Spencer Tracy
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 27 april 1951
Length 1h22
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families
Rating64%
Father's Little Dividend is a 1951 comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor. The movie is the sequel to Father of the Bride (1950).
Originally released by MGM, the film entered the public domain in the United States in 1979 due to a failure to renew the copyright. Despite the fact that Warner Bros. Entertainment (via ownership of Turner Entertainment) owns the distribution rights to the original, they have not yet released an authorized DVD release of the sequel, which is available on DVD through several other DVD distributors.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Spencer Tracy
(Stanley Banks)
Joan Bennett
(Ellie Banks)
Elizabeth Taylor
(Kay Dunstan)
Don Taylor
(Buckley Dunstan)
Billie Burke
(Doris Dunstan)
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