The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Their double-dates reversed at the bowling alley, New York radio host Norm (Jerry Van Dyke) with ingenuous Montanan Dolly (Stella Stevens) and his widower boss Tom (Glenn Ford) with the dignified, fetching professional fashion consultant Rita (Dina Merrill), in The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

After his new year’s party and unsatisfactory outcomes with two other prospects, Tom (Glenn Ford) meets divorceè neighbor Elizabeth (Shirley Jones) wrapping up her date, and they break new ground together, baby-sitting Mrs. Livingston (Roberta Sherwood) pretending sleep, in The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Eddie (Ronny Howard) picks out Dollye (Stella Stevens) who, it turns out, needs a favor from his widower father Tom (Glenn Ford), on a visit to a Manhattan arcade in Vincente Minnelli's The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1963.

First evening with new housekeeper Mrs Livingston (Roberta Sherwood), learning Spanish, Glenn Ford as newly-widowed Tom doing fine, discussing Elizabeth (Shirley Jones) and plausibly dazzled by her first appearance, Ronny Howard (title character) delighted too, early in Vincente Minnelli’s The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Eddie (Ronny Howard) sits his dad (Glenn Ford) down for a solemn talk during a summer-camp visit in Vincente Minnelli's The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1963.

Newly-widowed dad Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford) has to locate his son Eddie (Ronny Howard) in the apartment on the first day back to school in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1963.

A young boy plays matchmaker for his widowed father in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) starring Glenn Ford & Ronny Howard.