My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) DVD-R

Starring Richard Carlson, Martha O'Driscoll, Cecil Kellaway, Frances
Gifford, Florence Bates, Mabel Paige
Directed by Robert Siodmak, Cullen Tate

Print: black/white
Runtime: 75 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

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.