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The Catered Affair

1956, Movie, NR, 92 mins

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This eminently watchable misfire divides amateur and professional critics alike. The adaptation by Gore Vidal from Chayefsky's brilliant teleplay concerns a poor Bronx husband and wife wrangling over expenses for their beloved daughter's wedding. Following his triumph in another Chayefsky teleplay-to-screenplay effort, MARTY, the previous year, Borgnine acquits himself honorably as an Irish taxi driver. Davis indeed wrestles with the accent, but she's a mistress at tortured r... read more leave a comment
Year: 1956
Rated NR

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Cast
Bette Davis: Mrs. Tom Hurley
Ernest Borgnine: Tom Hurley
Debbie Reynolds: Jane Hurley
Barry Fitzgerald: Uncle Jack Conlon
Rod Taylor: Ralph Halloran
Robert F. Simon: Mr. Halloran

 

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A working-class mother (Bette Davis) fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the...
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