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Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1951 | Spencer
Best Writing Screenplay | 1951 | Albert
Best Picture | 1951
Best Written American Comedy | 1951 | Albert
Top Male Comedy Performance | 1951 | Spencer
Spencer Tracy wanted Katharine Hepburn for his screen wife, but it was felt that they were too romantic a team to play a happily domesticated couple with children, so Joan Bennett got the part.
MGM gave Elizabeth Taylor a wedding gift of a one-off wedding dress designed by Helen Rose (a move also designed to promote this movie).
In this movie, one of the gifts Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) gets as a present is a Venus de Milo statue with a clock in the stomach, which Stanley T. Banks (Spencer Tracy) refers to as a "stinker". This same gift makes its way into the re-make (Father of the Bride (1991)) amongst the presents, and is still not received well.
The picture on the nightstand at which Spencer Tracy looks was a real-life photo of Elizabeth Taylor as a child.
The premiere took place twelve days after Elizabeth Taylor's real-life May 6, 1950, marriage to Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, Jr. The premiere took place on May 18, 1950 in New York City, and was later released to the general American public in June. The publicity surrounding her real-life marriage is credited with helping to make this movie so successful.
"Stanley T. Banks: Who giveth this woman? "This woman." But she's not a woman. She's still a child. And she's leaving us. What's it going to be like to come home and not find her? Not to hear her voice calling "Hi, Pops" as I come in? I suddenly realized what I was doing. I was giving up Kay. Something inside me began to hurt."
"Stanley T. Banks: You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic."
