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Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Name: Father's Little Dividend
Genre: Family
Released: 1951
Duration: 1 h 21 min
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Don Taylor

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Father's Little Dividend (1951) is an 81-minute family film that airs free on Starlite TV's Family Room (CH 10) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Vincente Minnelli.

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About Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Father's Little Dividend is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor. The film is the sequel to Father of the Bride (1950).

Middle-class family man Stanley Banks learns that his recently married daughter Kay and her husband Buckley Dunstan are expecting a baby. Stanley's wife Ellie and Buckley's parents Doris and Herbert are delighted, but Stanley broods that he is too young and vibrant to be a grandfather. Ellie throws Kay a baby shower, although Stanley balks at the cost. Ellie suggests that they remodel their house so that Kay, Buckley and the baby can live with them, but Stanley refuses. The Dunstans announce plans to add a wing to their home for the couple, but Kay and Buckley reveal that they have just bought their own house.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Father's Little Dividend (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast includes: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Don Taylor, Dabbs Greer, Russ Tamblyn, Moroni Olsen
Country: United States

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Airs on

Family Room - CH 10, Family TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed.
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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