Weddings And Babies

It’s Beas (Viveca Lindfors) 30th birthday and her photographer boyfriend Al (John Myhers) still hasn’t proposed to her. He’s too busy trying to make money shooting “weddings and babies” to settle down and commit to marriage-and he’s got to support his old mother, and elderly Italian immigrant given to roaming the city at inopportune times. Bea is ready to give up when Al convinces her to stay and finally gives her an engagement ring. But it’s not long before their relationship is thrown into turmoil when a series of disasters leads Al to question everything in his life-including his desire to get married. Shot on location in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and Queens. Weddings and Babies is a timeless story of New Yorkers in and out of love.

Weddings And Babies, 1958, B/W, 81 minutes

Written and Directed by Morris Engel
Starring Viveca Lindfors and John Myhers
Critics Award, Venice Film Festival

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Morris Engel was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 8, 1918. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School and joined the Photo League in 1936 where he met Aaron Siskind and Paul Strand who became major influences in his life. He worked on the paper PM, and then enlisted in the Navy, where he was a combat photographer. He later did many magazine picture stories in the late 40’s. He also made films, and his classic film, LITTLE FUGITIVE was released in 1953. He shot several more features, and later worked with video.

The Morris Engel archive is run by his daughter, Mary Engel. Many of the photographs on the website are available for licensing or for purchase. His 3 feature films are available on the DVD boxset “The Films of Morris Engel” or for 16mm or 35mm film rental.

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Weddings And Babies