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• George Banks says that he doesn't want the wedding to bankrupt him so he'll end up wandering the streets in a bathrobe. This happens to Steve Martin's character in The Jerk (1979).
  
  
• Steve Martin's character of George Banks was named after David Tomlinson's character of the same name in Mary Poppins (1964).
  
  
• Actor Eugene Levy appears in both this movie and Father of the Bride Part II (1995), but as different characters in each one.
  
  
• George's middle name, Stanley, is named after Spencer Tracy's character in the original Father of the Bride (1950).
  
  
• Among the wedding gifts Annie receives is a Venus de Milo statue with a clock in the stomach. In the original Father of the Bride (1950), Kay also receives this as one of her wedding gifts. Both look at it with disdain.
  
  
• In the scene where George and Nina Banks are eliminating who will be invited to the wedding, among the names they mention are Steve and Stephanie Tyrell. Steve Tyrell did the several of the songs in this film and also in the sequel, Father of the Bride Part 2.
  
  
• Phoebe Cates was offered the role of Annie Banks, but had to decline it because of her pregnancy.
  
  
• Tom Irish made his film debut in the 1950 version, Father of the Bride (1950).
  
  
• Kimberly Williams and George Newbern were filmed in a series of Hallmark Card commercials as a couple.
  
  
• Tom Irish plays the same character, Ben Banks, in both the 1950 and the 1991 versions of "Father of the Bride".
  
  
• Eugene Levy and Martin Short who appear together in Father of the Bride as well as the sequel both attended Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  
  

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