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The Catered Affair (1956)
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14 June 1956 (USA) moreTagline:
When you're in love, nothing else matters morePlot:
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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1 win moreUser Comments:
Touching, nuanced moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Bette Davis | ... | Mrs. Agnes Hurley | |
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | Tom Hurley | |
| Debbie Reynolds | ... | Jane Hurley | |
| Barry Fitzgerald | ... | Uncle Jack Conlon | |
| Rod Taylor | ... | Ralph Halloran | |
| Robert F. Simon | ... | Mr. Halloran (as Robert Simon) | |
| Madge Kennedy | ... | Mrs. Halloran | |
| Dorothy Stickney | ... | Mrs. Rafferty | |
| Carol Veazie | ... | Mrs. Casey | |
| Joan Camden | ... | Alice Scanlon | |
| Ray Stricklyn | ... | Eddie Hurley | |
| Jay Adler | ... | Sam Leiter | |
| Dan Tobin | ... | Hotel Caterer | |
| Paul Denton | ... | Bill | |
| Augusta Merighi | ... | Mrs. Musso |
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92 minCountry:
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #17915)Fun Stuff
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Factual errors: Real-life radio soap opera "The Romance of Helen Trent" is heard on radio while members of Hurley family are waking up, eating breakfast and preparing to go off to work; in reality, radio soaps weren't broadcast until late mornings/ afternoons and/or evenings. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Bridge Attendant: Boy, Tom how's the taxi business?
Tom Hurley: How's the bridge business?
Bridge Attendant: One more day like this, I'll own the bridge.
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An unjustly neglected "kitchen sink" movie from the fifties, with fine performances by all and intriguing New York locations.
Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine portray the very much working-class parents of a young woman who is about to get married, and just wants a quick ceremony with no reception. But the mother, guilty about "not giving her daughter anything" over the years, pushes for an expensive "catered affair" that her husband cannot afford, and would use money he planned to devote to buying a taxicab license.
Davis' brassy performance has received the most attention, but Borgnine's subtle, nuanced portrayal of the father is what really sustains this movie. Barry Fitzgerald provides comic relief as a "oirish" uncle. Altogether a charming and touching film that is very much a slice of life of NYC in the fifties. Like the other Chayefsky scripts of this era, it explores themes that would have been unpalatable or mawkish for any other writer.