Spring Byington is Ronald Reagan's mother. She is carrying on a romance with Edmund Gwenn, but when Reagan's boss, Charles Coburn, gets a look at her, he falls for the minx too.
It's one of those brittle post-war comedies during the long afternoon of the Production Code, with the dread implications of s-e-x: not only between old geezers, but Reagan's daughter, played by Piper Laurie in her screen debut, who sees her grandma in the necking section of the local movie house and is shocked, d'ye hear, shocked.
This being a comedy, Regan is in stuffed-shirt mode; Ruth Roman as his wife is the perfectly efficient suburban housewife -- probably a Seven Sisters baccalaureate in the humanities. It's a gormless affair affably directed by Alexander Hall that is of some interest because of the trio of older players.
It's one of those brittle post-war comedies during the long afternoon of the Production Code, with the dread implications of s-e-x: not only between old geezers, but Reagan's daughter, played by Piper Laurie in her screen debut, who sees her grandma in the necking section of the local movie house and is shocked, d'ye hear, shocked.
This being a comedy, Regan is in stuffed-shirt mode; Ruth Roman as his wife is the perfectly efficient suburban housewife -- probably a Seven Sisters baccalaureate in the humanities. It's a gormless affair affably directed by Alexander Hall that is of some interest because of the trio of older players.