--- title: 'The Courtship of Eddie''s Father (1963)' type: 'film' director: 'Vincente Minnelli' released: '1963-01-01' runtime_minutes: 118 genres: - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-courtship-of-eddies-father-1963' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056956/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) 1963 · 118 min · Romance · United States ## Synopsis The Courtship of Eddie's Father is a 1963 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford as Tom Corbett, a widowed father and Ronny Howard as the titular son. The film is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Mark Toby. The film was subsequently adapted into a television series of the same title with Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz, which ran from 1969 to 1972 on ABC. ## Credits - **Director:** [Vincente Minnelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincente-minnelli) - **Screenplay:** [John Gay](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-gay) - **Original Music Composer:** [Georgie Stoll](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgie-stoll) - **Producer:** [Joe Pasternak](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-pasternak) - **Director of Photography:** [Milton Krasner](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-krasner) ## Cast - [Clint Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-howard) - [Andrew Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-stevens) - [Jerry Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-van-dyke) - [Stella Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/stella-stevens) - [Billy Halop](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-halop) - [Rance Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/rance-howard) - [Madlyn Rhue](https://cinepixo.com/people/madlyn-rhue) - [Vito Scotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/vito-scotti) - [Grace Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/grace-kelly) - [Clark Gable](https://cinepixo.com/people/clark-gable) - [Tom Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-curtis) - [Shirley Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-jones) - [Gene Roth](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-roth) - [Lee Meriwether](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-meriwether) - [Ron Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-howard) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-courtship-of-eddies-father-1963 Film facts: Wikidata (Q530679); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.