My Heart Belongs To Daddy (1942)

Stars:

Richard Carlson, Martha O'Driscoll, Cecil Kellaway

A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of The Moon is Blue fame (or notoriety). Martha O'Driscoll stars as a widowed, pregnant exotic dancer, forced by circumstance to stopover at the household of widowed scientist Richard Carlson, his domineering mother-in-law Florence Bates, and his overjudgemental sister-in-laws Frances Gifford and Velma Berg. O'Driscoll's impending motherhood throws the cozy little household into a frenzy, especially when Carlson insist that she stay despite the protest of his contentious in-laws. Cecil Kellaway steals the film as the pixieish, astonishingly resourceful cabdriver who brought O'Driscoll to Carlson's doorstep in the first place. A warm comedy-drama with mystical undertones, My Heart Belongs to Daddy may is low of budget but high in entertainment value.