Complete credited cast: | |||
Irene Dunne | ... | Kay | |
Fred MacMurray | ... | Chris Hayward | |
William Demarest | ... | Mears | |
Andy Devine | ... | Orvie | |
Gigi Perreau | ... | Tina | |
Natalie Wood | ... | Nan | |
Philip Ober | ... | Jed | |
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Jack Kirkwood | ... | Papa Dude |
Ann Doran | ... | Jean |
Sophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Heyward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as Chris' kids preside over the ranch, an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds that her heart is with Chris and his children. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Rodeo cowboy Chris (Fred MacMurray) has a whirlwind romance while visiting New York for a charity gig where he meets song writer Kay (Irene Dunne.)
After rapidly getting married she drives cross country to his ramshackle Wyoming ranch where she becomes stepmother to his two daughters from his first marriage.
Much of the movie sees Kay trying to adjust to her life at the ranch and raise her new stepdaughters. Problems begin with the neighbouring rancher who holds the water rights and whose cow, Kay accidentally shoots.
Kay contemplates returning to Broadway to earn money in this fish out of water comedy. The cast make the film better than it should be, there are a few songs but it really is not that funny and rather predictable.