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The Catered Affair (1956) | User Rating
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MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 32 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM, Sam Zimbalist
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Other Titles
• The Catered Affair
• Mädchen ohne Mitgift (1957)
• Wedding Breakfast
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Genre: Drama, Tear Jerker, Urban, Satire
Tagline: The story of a girl who wanted to lead her own life.
Plot: Gore Vidal adapted Paddy Chayefsky's teleplay about the Hurleys, a hardworking Irish family struggling to make ends meet in a poor Bronx flat. Bette Davis stars as Mrs. Agnes Hurley, a woman aged by the toil and hardships of her marriage, forced to look back on her life and marriage to her taxi-driver husband, Tom (Ernest Borgnine), when her only daughter, Jane (Debbie Reynolds), announces her upcoming wedding. Although Jane wants only a simple civil ceremony, Mrs. Hurley is determined to give her daughter the wedding she never had, even if it will wipe out the family's savings and ruin her husband's dream of owning his own taxi company. THE CATERED AFFAIR is a simultaneously heartwarming and heart-wrenching slice of poor working-class life and the dreams that are sometimes squelched by poverty. Almost all the action takes place within the walls of the crowded flat that the Hurleys call home. Ernest Borgnine and Bette Davis deliver complex and thought-provoking portrayals of a husband and wife who are forced to examine the dreary circumstances of their marriage and find hope for the future.
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| Written by |
| Gore Vidal
Caligula, Suddenly, Last Summer, The Left Handed Gun |
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| Cast |
Bette Davis
All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Death on the Nile |
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 | Rod Taylor
The Birds, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Time Machine |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Operation Petticoat, Compulsion | Madge Kennedy
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Houseboat, Lust for Life | |
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| Music By |
André Previn
Bad Day at Black Rock, One, Two, Three, Elmer Gantry |
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