
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Every boy needs a mother... even if Dad has to marry her!
A warm, gently comedic family story about a precocious boy's matchmaking efforts to help his widowed father find love and rebuild their family.
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
Essence
Ensemble

Glenn Ford
Tom Corbett

Shirley Jones
Elizabeth Marten

Stella Stevens
Dollye Daly

Ron Howard
Eddie Corbett

Dina Merrill
Rita Behrens

Roberta Sherwood
Mrs. Livingston

Jerry Van Dyke
Norman Jones
Carol Andreson
Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
Ellen Atterbury
Millie (uncredited)
Christopher Barrey
Child Party Guest (uncredited)
Leslie Barringer
Mike (uncredited)
John Barton
Arcade Patron (uncredited)
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