Directed by:
Richard BrooksCinematography:
John AltonComposer:
André PrevinCast:
Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor, Carol Veazie, Mae Clarke, Dan Tobin, Robert F. Simon, Jay Adler, Ray Stricklyn (more)VOD (1)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Bette Davis
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
All About Eve (1950)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Ernest Borgnine
USA
Best movies:
Gattaca (1997)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Debbie Reynolds
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Three Little Words (1950)
Barry Fitzgerald
Ireland
Best movies:
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Going My Way (1944)
Rod Taylor
Australia
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Giant (1956)
The Birds (1963)
Carol Veazie
Canada
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Designing Woman (1957)
Mae Clarke
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
The Front Page (1931)
Dan Tobin
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Robert F. Simon
USA
Best movies:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Compulsion (1959)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Jay Adler
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
Lust for Life (1956)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Ray Stricklyn
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
North and South (1985) (series)
Jack Kenney
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Don Devlin
USA
Best movies:
Three Violent People (1956)
The Catered Affair (1956)
Robert R. Stephenson
UK
Best movies:
Stalag 17 (1953)
Storm Warning (1951)
Random Harvest (1942)
Tom Dillon
Ireland
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Joan Camden
USA
Best movies:
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
The Catered Affair (1956)
Augusta Merighi
Best movies:
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Never Love a Stranger (1958)
The Catered Affair (1956)
Jimmie Fox
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
The Catered Affair (1956)