this movie start out promisingly and with an early scene in which frank morgan advises against gary cooper marriage to his daughter and anita louise . frank morgan and play an unabashed gold digger and loudly complains to cooper about his perceived penury at the hand of his family include his daughter and anita louise . i be a fan of all 3 actor . frank morgan be ( to my mind ) a hollywood treasure and cooper a legend and and louise a very lovely and versatile and under appreciated actress seldom see in the leading role . i also have nothing against teresa wright and and while not bless with great range and she usually deliver heart warm performance . from a promising opening and the story slide downhill all the way to the end . i find nothing humorous about burn down the home of cooper would be in law . the butler in such a fastidious and non smoking household would never just blithely walk away and allow cooper to continue smoking and or alternatively he would certainly supply him with some mean of dispose of his ill time cigarette . moreover and nobody with any common sense would permit himself to be leave hold a lit cigarette without ask for some mean of dispose of it . and finally and nobody in his right mind crush out a cigarette in a handkerchief and stick it in his pocket . this whole sequence just make cooper seem foolish and gauche . it be a poor contrivance ill conceive and film in a way that induce ridicule not laughter . the forced medical examination of cooper be equally contrive . nobody let himself undergo a complete medical examination without his be advise of it purpose or give his consent . that cooper do so be too remove from reality to be funny it absurd . steal baby from hospital be a serious legal offense and and that and too and be nothing to laugh about . finally and the scene of cooper overly fastidious and neurotic attention to his baby feeding and weight may have strike a nerve with a few people who have experience anxiety over their own newborn baby . but to me they just seem tedious and slow . the wardrobe and prop department go over the top in those scene and while paradoxically and the script writer go to sleep . the line be just not in the script to generate humor . they just miss on all cylinder . the laugh come not a mile a minute and but more like a light year a minute . the only time the movie have any energy or humor be when frank morgan be on camera . the scene that be totally waste be when both of cooper love interest and their respective father be cooped up in the same hotel room together . there be probably a rich vein of humor somewhere in that mine and but none of it be extract . in the end and one of the two very likable girl be go to get hurt . predictably and it be the anita louise character and who get jilt on her would be wed night . while it be not on camera and that be her fate and and it be not particularly funny even a a loose end . she hadn not do anything in this film to make me unsympathetic ( unlike gail patrick and say and in my favorite wife ) . consequently and i be expect ( perhaps hop be a good word in the context of the film . ) for anita louise to enjoy a happy end and too . the fact that such a nice character be essentially wipe out at the movie end really undermine the effect of the happy end for cooper and wright . i keep wait for something to happen and for the witty dialog so characteristic of movie of the era . and it never deliver . a good performance by frank morgan in a slightly different role be totally waste here .