Though he is best known for his musicals, Vincente Minnelli was quite a successful director of studio comedies. He made seven of them in his career and most were profitable for MGM.
The best-known is 1950’s Father of the Bride, starring Spencer Tracy and an 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor. That heartwarming family comedy did so well that a sequel was immediately greenlit, shot on the same sets with the same cast, and released to theaters within a year. That one, Father’s Little Dividend, found Tracy and his wife (played by Joan Bennett) becoming grandparents.
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