00:09happy father's day i'm alicia malone and we are celebrating dads of all kinds today with a lineup
00:15of movies featuring fathers up next glenn ford stars is a widowed dad whose son wants him to
00:21get remarried from 1963 directed by vincent minnelli it's the courtship of eddie's father
00:27this started with producer joe pastinac at mgm who decided to adapt an autobiographical book by mark
00:34toby hiring screenwriter john gay to write the script glenn ford was cast as tom corbett with
00:41a young ron howard playing his son eddie eddie is determined to help his dad move on and sets his
00:47sights on their next door neighbor the lovely elizabeth martin played by shirley jones but tom
00:53starts dating another woman instead the sophisticated rita played by dina merrill vincent minnelli had also
01:00read mark toby's book and said he found it to be warm and winning likening it to another film he
01:06directed about a dad father of the bride he thought this one was just as real and that he could
01:11pull
01:12it off during filming minnelli was impressed with glenn ford saying he was a complicated man but that
01:18he delivered a true performance and a touching one shirley jones also praised ford's acting ability
01:24saying he reminded her of james stewart because of how natural he was as she wrote in a memoir ford
01:30brought his own nuances to a character whatever he said sounded as if he just thought of it as if
01:36he
01:36never looked at a script that is a marvelous quality to have ronnie howard was also a natural this was
01:43his fourth credited film and he was just nine when it was released but he'd been acting for many years
01:48on the andy griffith show and with shirley jones in the music man and during our tcm classic film
01:55cruise last year sean cassidy watched this movie with the audience for the first time in many years
02:00and told me that it stirred up a lot of old emotions of the jealousy he'd felt as a young
02:05boy
02:06watching his mom be so doting to ron howard from 1963 this is the courtship of eddie's father
