Elizabeth Taylor Father Of The Bride Wedding Dress

While elizabeth was busy planning her real life wedding she was also in the midst of shooting a film.

Elizabeth taylor father of the bride wedding dress. The film stars spencer tracy in the titular role joan bennett elizabeth taylor don taylor billie burke and leo g. Carroll it was adapted by frances goodrich and albert hackett from the 1949 novel by edward streeter. The father of the bride wedding gown for elizabeth was made of ivory colored satin and lace. In december 1949 17 year old elizabeth taylor said yes to nicholas hilton s proposal.

In addition to her first dress mgm s costume designer helen rose made taylor s dress for this too. It was designed by helen rose who went on to make the iconic wedding dress for grace kelly in 1956. Though elizabeth taylor walked down the aisle eight times only once did she do it in a so called traditional bridal gown. Father of the bride is a 1950 american comedy film directed by vincente minnelli about a man trying to cope with preparations for his daughter s upcoming wedding.

The on screen bride appeared in the film father of the bride with don taylor as the groom. The helen rose designed gown rose also designed grace kelly s wedding dress and taylor s similar look in the original father of the bride sold at a london auction for 187 931 in 2013. The groom was played by an unknown actor don taylor although his parents were the. The film was released a month after her first wedding.

The many wedding dresses of elizabeth taylor a retrospective. The movie wedding took place in father of the bride 1950 with spencer tracy playing the father and joan bennett playing the mother. Original elizabethtaylor father of the father of the bride 1950 s on elizabeth taylor birthday wedding dresses bride 8x10 still r62 elizabeth taylor original. At the time rose was climbing the ranks at mgm and had simultaneously just been made the studio s chief designer.

Three weeks later she started a film dealing with a wedding. 1 5 father of the bride 1950.