And Baby Makes Three (1949)

A book publisher (Robert Young) is distraught by the news that his ex-wife (Barbara Hale) is about to get remarried. However, when she faints going down the aisle, it leads to the discovery that she's pregnant with his child. This makes him more determined than ever to win her back. Directed by Henry Levin (WHERE THE BOYS ARE), this is the kind of sitcom material that would thrive on television in the following decade (1950s). Indeed, Young himself would find a thriving sitcom career in the 1950s with FATHER KNOWS BEST. Considering the movie's subject, what I found most amusing was the way the film goes out of its way to avoid the word pregnant and uses all kinds of euphemisms to describe Hale's condition. Even when Hale visits a shop specializing in maternity clothes, the word maternity is never used. It's called an anticipation shop. How precious! The film's attitude toward divorce, single parenting vs. co-parenting, step parenting are all mired in 1940s sensibilities which are dated. All that being said, portions of the film are (very) moderately amusing. With Billie Burke, Janis Carter, Robert Hutton, Melville Cooper and Theresa Harris.