Weddings and babies

Production dates and credits taken from AFI and Variety.; AFI notes that this film was produced in 1958 and released in 1960.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Photographer, Morris Engel ; editors, Stan Russell, Michael Alexander ; music composer and conductor, Eddy Manson.; American Film Institute Catalog: feature films.; Variety Film Reviews, 09/17/58.; Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina Barile, Leonard Elliott, Joanna Merlin, Chris, Gabriel Kohn, Mary Faranda.; In New York's Little Italy, a Swedish-born woman (Lindfors) yearns to begin a family with her photographer boyfriend Al (Myhers). But the two things to which Al has devoted his career--weddings and babies--are the very things he cannot make room for in his own life. Engel's photojournalistic style profoundly influenced the independent cinema of the 1960's.

The film focuses on the stormy relationship between New York City wedding photographer Al Capetti and his Swedish-born girlfriend and assistant Bea. As the film begins, Bea tells Al how anxious she is to get married and have children of her own. Al, however, resists getting married until he has substantial savings.