June 16, 1950 –
The romantic comedy, Father of the Bride, directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, and Leo G. Carroll, opened in the US on this date.
The surrealist artist Salvador Dali created the sequence where Stanley (Spencer Tracy) has a very weird nightmare over the anxiety of the impending nuptials. As he rushes down the aisle, Stanley’s clothes mysteriously get shredded by the tiled floor that bounces and contorts like a piece of flesh. This marked the end of Dalí’s work in Hollywood, which also included the famous dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound.
The Haus of Dcaligari 