The 1950s breadwinning ""father of the bride"" Stanley (Spencer Tracy) presided over a domestic suburban setting, including his wife Ellie Banks (Joan Bennett in her first film for MGM), his always-hungry teenaged son Tommy (Russ Tamblyn), collegiate-aged Ben (Tom Irish), and their eldest "only daughter" - 20 year-old sister Kay (nicknamed "Kitten"), a charming and beautiful young girl.It""s a shame for you to come all the way up here and miss your amusement.Read it, doctor, the intimate journal of Miss Charlotte Vale - spinster....but you must pry.I insist that you do.There""s really nothing to frighten you off - a few snapshots, a memento or two.It""s a record of my last trip abroad with my mother.We were sailing up the coast of Africa.See - there""s a picture of our ship, a...steamer.You wouldn""t have known me then - I was twenty then.Pages of a book flip backwards to an eras-gone-by flashback where twenty-year old Charlotte is on her first voyage of love - kissing handsome ship""s officer Leslie Trotter (Charles Drake) on a sunny deck: "That was a scorcher," he tells her.W.Griffith""sThe Birth of a Nation(1915).The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the titleThe Clansmanin February, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, but three months later was retitled with he present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize he birthing process of the US.Kirk was assured (and knew) that Spock could fly the vessel, and that their plan would succeed.Spock commanded Elder Spock""s ship out of theNaradaon a mission to destroy the drill, while Kirk went to rescue Captain Pike.