Which actors played the parents in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride?

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Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful. — Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli (right) with Lana Turner (left) during the filming of *The Bad and the Beautiful* (1952).

In the 1950 film Father of the Bride, directed by Vincente Minnelli, the parents of the bride were portrayed by Spencer Tracy, who played Stanley T. Banks, and Joan Bennett, who played his wife, Ellie Banks.1