The Plot.As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.Jesus this plot sounds depressing. The 40s were a time when Hollywood was in flux. Late 40s already saw the rise of television which would explode in the 50s. The movies made in the 40s were largely the built on post war conventions we don't hold dearly today.I found it very hard to look beyond the dated sensibility of this film. The script conventions that have been done a million times. Maybe it's just me. i don't know.I just found the movie annoying.

I have seen this movie a dozen times and never get tired of it, it's one of the best movies ever made for many reasons. First the characters are real, and go threw all the ups and downs of real life and have the true reactions, no fluff, no fairy tale, just sincere emotion. I know this because I've been threw some of the same situations. Second the actors are stunning, you believe they really are those people and you have to hurt with them and root for them and be happy for them, no way can you not cry both happy and sad tears watching this movie, its well worth the over 2 hours it runs, a classic for sure, please see it and love it as much as I do.

I'm a fan of Grant and Dunne's two previous "screwball comedy" features, "The Awful Truth" and "My Favourite Wife". This movie is however a million miles away from those comedy classics being an old-fashioned weepie about a couple who come together later in life and who despite the initial resistance of Grant's character to fatherhood, suffer the loss of their first child in pregnancy (due to a surprise earthquake in Japan, yep, go figure it!) and who later adopt a baby girl who unsurprisingly becomes the centre point of their lives.As a childless husband, I found I couldn't relate to the tribulations of this couple who in the end can only co-exist if there's a child to act between them as the family glue, the happy ending emanating unsurprisingly from another phone call from the orphanage just as they're about to separate for good.It's all very sincere and earnest, but it's also very slow and undramatic, "high-points" of the film being Dunne's excruciating attempt to put a nappy on the baby and the couple's adoring attendance at the now infant girl's first Christmas nativity.Edgar Buchanan as the silly-named Applejack gets a sympathetic part as their best friend and Beulah Bondai likewise as the orphanage matron who they win over to their side despite their struggling poverty.Grant and Dunne try hard to put across this sentimental tosh with conviction but they seem too old for their parts and occasionally come over as gauche and unconvincing. Grant gets a big scene where he tries to convince the "by-the-book" orphanage governor to let them keep their child, but like so many other scenes, it goes on too long, lessening its dramatic input. Director Stevens uses as the, I hesitate to call it narrative drive, dissolves of Dunne playing "their tunes" on record discs, this gimmick palling quickly as the dull story kicks in.While I was pleased to finally see a rarely screened Grant movie, it probably isn't one I'll want to see again. It's not a terrible movie, but it is, alas, quite a boring one.

this movie was very cute but also very sad, this poor couple is very much in love and want nothing more then to have children to love as well. but there's nothing but disater for them when they loss there unborn child in a earthquake, then finally able to adopt a little girl and go through so much just to keep her only for her to fall ill and die. this tears them apart and they almost split up when they get a call that there is a two year old boy that they can adopt and they are so over joyed that all the pain they felt moments before almost vanish. some of my favorite scene's where when they first bring there baby girl home they are trying to be quite but the stairs creek and just the angle of the camera and the look on there faces as they run up the stairs so not to wake the baby is just precious.