The Catered Affair

The Catered AffairAggie Hurley (Bette Davis) is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane (Debbie Reynolds) is going to have a lavish wedding even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom (Ernest Borgnine) must give up his dream of owning his own taxi to finance the extravaganza. Borgnine, winner of 1955's Best Actor Oscar for Marty (like The Catered Affair originally written for TV by Paddy Chayefsky), etches another superb

the US Naval Training Station in San Diego and aboard the USS Arizona

clowns and wows `em as Eddie

On the way to prison

After Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) learns her husband Paul (Robert Mitchum) was killed trying to escape from a Nazi prisoner-of war camp

Retiring from the screen in 1948

Morgan thinks he can thwart Brog by building a town at a new rail spur where cattlemen can safely bring their herds to market

and the professor's daughter to stop the attacker

becoming a national home-run hero

the venerable blind teacher who likens young Caine to a mere "grasshopper

The circus has come to town and with it aerialist Polly Fisher (Davies)

torture and pagan baptisms

Vanessa Meyer is suddenly arrested by the FBI and accused of a petty crime