It has a couple of funny scenes at the beginning, and that’s it.
The story sees young lawyer John Mason (Stewart) coming back from a trip to Boston with a wife. Apparently he met Jane there, and they got married right away. Back in New York, it seems that his boss, Judge Doolittle (Charles Coburn) is not too please with it: “last year there were nearly a half a million divorces in this country. Congratulations Mason”. Apparently everyone but John thought that he was going to marry Doolittle’s daughter...
Then they need to meet John’s mother, and she seems rather cold; she doesn’t yet know about the marriage, and she tells Jane that she shouldn’t give up her career so easily, to which Jane replies that marriage is a career in itself - .... this was 1939 after all, and a woman with a husband didn’t need either an education or a job. John’s mother agrees with her of course, adding “that’s why one mustn’t rush into it, hell no, marriage is a very serious business” and talking about marriage “I hope and pray that that day will not come for many years” .... which makes it more difficult of course for them to tell her the truth, but they must and she faints. Well, one can understand the shock of finding out without any warning of any kind that one is not the mistress of his own house anymore.
Things are difficult for them, the mother kind of resents Jane’s presence, and complains because she thought too that he was going to marry the judge’s daughter: not surprising said daughter advices her father to make someone else junior partner of the firm, not John.
All of a sudden it seems that they have money problems, and when a baby is born he has to sleep in the living-room, for some reasons! They seem to think that’s the only solution, I think there was no reason for it, and it was absurd to do so. If kept in their room he would keep them awake all night... so Jane parks him in the living-room :-/
Life is not easy, the mother keeps judging and criticizing her and John doesn’t even notice; they can’t keep a housemaid, and when they finally find a good one they have no money to spare. Too bad really, the black maid was the only nice, kind, lovable, warm-hearted character around.
It’s hard on John when he doesn’t get promoted, and Jane encourages him to demand a raise, but when he tries to do so the judge tells him that do to difficult times they will all have to accept a decrease in salary!
Very soon troubles start in paradise: Jane can’t stand it any more, with the mother always picking on her, John is always down because he thinks of himself as a failure, which seems a bit premature for a young man (the actor was thirty, let’s assume the character was too). At New Year’s eve, he tells her that maybe their wedding was a mistake, but as they get home the baby is taken to the hospital, sick.
The terrible pain makes Jane and the mother talk and understand each other, brings them closer.
The baby has something serious, and they need a medicine that the hospital doesn’t have. They telephone various hospitals in other cities, until they find one, but there’s a terrible storm and it’s too dangerous to flight a plane. John wakes the judge in the middle of the night to ask for 5000$, and when he learns the reason for it the judge is very quick in granting it. Still, the pilot refuses to fly in that weather, he has a family too, but another pilot accepts the job and the risk. They lose contact with the plane, and it seems all hope is lost, but the pilot manages to parachute himself with the medicine, luckily in New York, and heroically dragged himself to a house, where they saw the package and called the hospital. I don’t know if the pilot made it or not, but the hospital gets the medicine and the baby is saved. The end.
ITA ritorna l’amore (I think, according to IMDB, never seen this movie on Italian television)
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