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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
Season 2023
Episode 74
A doting father (Spencer Tracy) faces a series of comic trials when his newlywed daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) announces she is expecting her first child. The family comedy also stars Joan Bennett and Don Taylor.
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