Irene Dunne and Dean Jagger are a couple with three children and tight budget. One day she purchases a couple of trees for the back yard. Soon, money begins showing up on the wind, through the bathroom window, brought in by the cat and found on the grass. It turns out that the trees are producing the money. Miss Dunne starts to spend the money.
It's a brittle fantasy directed by comedy specialist Arthur Lubin. Miss Dunne plays a sweet, feather-brained woman, while Jagger is stolid and honest. Clearly this move was intended to appeal to the nervous middle class of the period, struggling to make ends meet in the 1950s while giving their family all the things that post-war prosperity was expected to yield. Miss Dunne is impeccable in her role, while Jagger plays second banana gruffly and amiably. Like many of the comedy-fantasies of the era, alas, the satire that might have infused it at some stage of its production is weakened by its very 1950s-specific air and the character work. Even so, it's worthy of some attention because of its cast (which includes Richard Crenna in an early adult role, and Miss Dunne in her final big-screen appearance), and its inherent modesty as a programme
It's a brittle fantasy directed by comedy specialist Arthur Lubin. Miss Dunne plays a sweet, feather-brained woman, while Jagger is stolid and honest. Clearly this move was intended to appeal to the nervous middle class of the period, struggling to make ends meet in the 1950s while giving their family all the things that post-war prosperity was expected to yield. Miss Dunne is impeccable in her role, while Jagger plays second banana gruffly and amiably. Like many of the comedy-fantasies of the era, alas, the satire that might have infused it at some stage of its production is weakened by its very 1950s-specific air and the character work. Even so, it's worthy of some attention because of its cast (which includes Richard Crenna in an early adult role, and Miss Dunne in her final big-screen appearance), and its inherent modesty as a programme