Trivia / Father of the Bride (1950)

• What Could Have Been:
  • Spencer Tracy wanted his partner Katharine Hepburn for his on-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.
  • Charles Laughton, Fredric March and Walter Pidgeon were in the running for the lead role. After some miscommunication with the producers, Jack Benny was brought in for a reading. He was too comedic and couldn't handle the dramatic aspects of the film.

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