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  1. The Catered Affair (also known as Wedding Party) is a 1956 American comedy drama film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Gore Vidal, based on a 1955 television play by Paddy Chayefsky.

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  3. May 5, 2019 · The Catered Affair marries those two strains of realism, pairing family drama with energetic blocking and dialogue, and the result is a touching, if somewhat clumsy, depiction of life.

  4. The Catered Affair started as a television drama by Paddy Chayefsky, the author of such realistic stories as Marty and The Bachelor Party. For the film version, MGM signed Marty's screen portrayer, Ernest Borgnine.

    • Richard Brooks, William Shanks
    • Bette Davis
  5. The Catered Affair is a kitchen-sink 1950s melodrama about the kind of people who love each other but can't admit it. Based on a Paddy Chayefsky teleplay (and adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal), Bette Davis is a frumpy working-class housewife determined to throw her sensible daughter (Debbie Reynolds) an expensive wedding despite being ...

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    • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    • Richard Brooks
  6. The Catered Affair. When Jane Hurley tells her parents Tom (a struggling cab driver) and Agnes (a domestic engineer) that she is marrying Ralph Halloran, Agnes starts planning a big wedding, even though Jane and Ralph don't want it and Tom cannot afford it.

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    • Comedy, Drama, Romance
    • Richard Brooks
    • 1956-06-22
  7. The Catered Affair (1956), also known as Wedding Party, is a family drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Gore Vidal, based on a television play by Paddy Chayefsky.

  8. When Jane (Debbie Reynolds) tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran (Rod Taylor), her mother, Agnes (Bette Davis), starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane...

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