"Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad."
Spencer Tracy
as Stanley Banks
Joan Bennett
as Ellie Banks
Elizabeth Taylor
as Kay Dunstan
Don Taylor
as Buckley Dunstan
Billie Burke
as Doris Dunstan
Moroni Olsen
as Herbert Dunstan
Richard Rober
as Police Sergeant
Marietta Canty
as Delilah
Russ Tamblyn
as Tommy Banks
Tom Irish
as Ben Banks
Hayden Rorke
as Andrew Nordell
Paul Harvey
as Reverend Galsworthy
Georgia Holt
as Baby Shower Guest (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
as Gym Instructor (uncredited)
Donald Clark
as Baby Stanley Banks Dunstan (uncredited)
Jacqueline Duval
Herbert Evans
as Men's Club Waiter (uncredited)
Janey Fay
Ruta Fox
as Baby Stanley Banks (uncredited)
Dabbs Greer
as Green Taxicab's Driver (uncredited)
Harry Hines
as Old Man (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
as Policeman (uncredited)
Dick Martin
as Baby Stanley's Holder at Christening (uncredited)
Joe McGuinn
James Menzies
as Boy Soccer Player (uncredited)
Thomas Menzies
as Red (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Lon Poff
as Old Man on Porch (uncredited)
Nicky Johnson Robertson
Warren Schannon
as Boy (uncredited)
Erin Selwyn
Frank Sully
as Infant Service Diaper Man (uncredited)
Beverly Thompson
as Nurse (uncredited)
Nancy Valentine
Wendy Waldron
Robert B. Williams
as Traffic Cop at Hospital (uncredited)
George Woods
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
Edward Streeter
Characters
Albert Hackett
Screenplay
Vincente Minnelli
Director
Frances Goodrich
F. Keogh Gleason
Assistant Set Decoration
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Sydney Guilaroff
Hair Designer
William Tuttle
Makeup Designer
George Stoll
Conductor
John Alton
Director of Photography
Sound Recordist
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Albert Sendrey
Original Music Composer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Helen Rose
Costume Design
Leonid Vasian
Ferris Webster
Editor