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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. The film stars Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald and Rod Taylor.
The Catered Affair: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald. 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
Catered Affair, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Had A Proper Wedding After a series of domestic eruptions, working-class Bronx mom Aggie (Bette Davis) apologizes to daughter Jane (Debbie Reynolds) and makes her pitch to stage a wedding for her they can’t really afford, and she accepts, but can’t quite tell groom Ralph (Rod Taylor), in Gore Vidal’s The Catered Affair, 1956.
- Richard Brooks, William Shanks
- Bette Davis
Sound Department. Wesley C. Miller. ... recording supervisor (as Dr. Wesley C. Miller) Ralph George. ... sound editor (uncredited) Van Allen James.
The Catered Affair. Released May 30, 1956 1h 33m Comedy Drama. List. 17% Tomatometer 6 Reviews. 71% Audience Score 250+ Ratings. When Jane (Debbie Reynolds) tells her parents that she is getting ...
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- Bette Davis
- Richard Brooks
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Luke Kane ★★★ 2. 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 ...
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.
