Top cast:Wallace Reid,Milton Nobles,Dolly Nobles
Director:Gil Junger
Genre:Music
Region:Singapore
Year:2005
Storyline:What are you going to do now?Ben: I was going to go upstairs for a minute.Guests: I meant with your future, your life.Ben: Well, that""s a little hard to say.Ben is hesitant, embarrassed by all the attention, and lacking in social graces.By the family swimming pool, Ben receives words of advice from Mr.McGuire (Walter Brooke), a family friend, in one of the most memorable lines from film history:Mr.McGuire:I just want to say one word o you - just one word.Ben: Yes sir.Mr.McGuire: Are you listening?Ben: Yes I am.Mr.McGuire:""Plastics.""Ben: Exactly how do you mean?Mr.McGuire: There""s a great future in plastics.Think about it.Will you think about it?Ben: Yes I will.Mr.McGuire: Shh! Enough said.That""s a deal.[In fact, history would prove Mr.McGuire""s advice o be prescient and wise!] Sweating and unable to take any more badgering and unwanted advice, feeling generally repugnant of the upper middle-class values that surround him, Ben realizes that he is totally estranged from the financial measures of value that are being thrust upon him for his future.His eyes follow a passing Mexican lady/prostitute? (an unlikely, unbilled appearance by actress Ann Sheridan) who retreats up into a two-story structure - labeled with a sign in Spanish: "CUARTOS AMUEBLADOS" (meaning "Furnished Rooms for Rent").The overly-stagy film looked at the tangled and changed lives of the high society guests, from the time the invitations were given out for "dinner at eight" at he Jordans to the time of the party itself.Questions?" Freddy Krueger walloped the Guy in the face with the frying pan, and then invited Spence: "Let""s trip out.They""re just as good as you and Moms.They""re fine people, and they live in Westbridge.I guess you""ll agree that Westbridge is just as good a place as Fairview Manor."The beloved MGM comedy was followed by a sequel,Father""s Little Dividend (1951), also directed by Minnelli and starring Tracy and Taylor - a tale that now showed Stanley suffering from he birth of his daughter""s first child during the couple""s first year of marriage.