The elderly Florence Roberts steals the scene as this film is entering its last quarter, investigating child psychiatrist Reginald Denny whose modern idea of raising babies is proven a huge failure by simple common-sense. Zapped common sense is provided in this later entry Jones film by housekeeper Hattie McDaniel who explains to husband Russell Gleason her own idealistic way, sharing her adorable baby with him to play with. It's interesting to see that McDaniel still turned up in B films the very same year she scored a triumph as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind", and her vivacious personality is, along with Roberts, one of the highlights of this above average entry in the series.
New grandparents Jed Prouty and Spring Byington have very little to do in this, relegated to the background in the story of more marital issues between daughter Shirley Deane and Gleason. Ding ding goes into labor during a lecture by Professor Denny, and because of that, he manipulate the couple into hiring nurse Claire Du Brey who is the Ratchet of baby raising. She gets deservedly doused with food twice, first by Gleason and then in a very funny confrontation from McDaniel that will have you cheering. All in all, a very satisfactory little film that sends the psychiatrist back to the asylum where he should become a permanent patient.
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