Everybody's Baby
Cast & Crew
Malcolm St. Clair
Jed Prouty
Shirley Deane
Spring Byington
Russell Gleason
Ken Howell
Film Details
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Synopsis
The arrival of the Jones family's first grandchild causes an uproar when the baby's mother, Bonnie Thompson, insists upon rearing her child according to the precepts of child psychologist Dr. Ronald B. Pillcoff. The enforcer of the doctor's edicts is Nurse Cordell, a live-in nurse who makes certain that no one disturbs or handles the baby, as outlined by Dr. Pillcoff. This causes the baby's desperate father Herbert to sneak through a window to hold his daughter and inadvertently trigger a kidnapping alarm that brings the police. In retaliation, Herbert joins the other Pillcoff baby fathers to form an anti-Pillcoff society. After the society's first meeting, Herbert returns home to demand his rights as a father, only to be thrown out of the house by his wife. This prompts Bonnie's grandmother, Granny Jones, to pay a visit to their family doctor, where she learns that Pillcoff has been expelled by the medical association for unethical conduct. Granny approaches Herbert with her information, and they convene a meeting of the anti-Pillcoff society to hatch a plot that will rid the town of Maryville of Pillcoff's edicts forever. When Dick Lane, the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, invites Pillcoff to give a lecture, the greedy doctor eagerly accepts the large fee and arrives at the hall to find it filled with unruly children. As Pillcoff is reduced to a screaming match with the children, Bonnie's housekeeper, Hattie, a mother of eight herself, orders Nurse Cordell out of the house. Meanwhile, back at the lecture hall, Pillcoff threatens to beat Bonnie's brother Bobby, which finally makes Bonnie realize that he is a quack. The theories of Dr. Pillcoff are thus banished forever, and peace is restored to the families of Maryville.
Director
Malcolm St. Clair
Cast
Jed Prouty
Shirley Deane
Spring Byington
Russell Gleason
Ken Howell
George Ernest
June Carlson
Florence Roberts
Billy Mahan
Reginald Denny
Robert Allen
Claire Dubrey
Marvin Stephens
Hattie Mcdaniel
Arthur Loft
Howard Hickman
Stanley Blystone
James Blaine
Phyllis Fraser
Sam Mcdaniel
Robert Lowery
George Chandler
Billy Newell
Aggie Herring
Mickey Martin
Frank Moran
Lillian West
Ruth Robinson
Romaine Callender
James Flavin
Crew
William H. Anderson
Jasper Blystone
Robert Chapin
Norman Colbert
Karen De Wolf
Bernard Freericks
Bernard Herzbrun
Frances Hyland
Samuel Kaylin
Boris Leven
Thomas Little
Helen A. Myron
Albert Ray
Betty Reinhardt
Edward Snyder
Hilda Stone
John Stone
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Notes
The working title of this film was A Bundle of Joy. According to material contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, Joseph Hoffman wrote an early treatment for this film, but it was superseded by a treatment written by Karen De Wolf and Robert Chapin. For further information regarding the series, consult the Series Index and Every Saturday Night (1936).
