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Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Frank Capra
Casts & Crew
Bing Crosby
Jane Wyman
Alexis Smith
Franchot Tone
James Barton
Robert Keith
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Connie Gilchrist
Jacky Gencel
Charles Lane
Beverly Washburn
H.B. Warner
Nicholas Joy
Ian Wolfe
Maidel Turner
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
Irving Bacon
Walter Catlett
Alan Reed
Minna Gombell
Charles Halton
Bess Flowers
Ellen Corby
Howard Freeman
Almira Sessions
J. Farrell MacDonald
Louis Armstrong
Dorothy Lamour
Cass Daley
Florence Clayton
Franklyn Farnum
Julia Faye
Sam Harris
Kenner G. Kemp
Harold Miller
Frank O'Connor
Cosmo Sardo
Bert Stevens
Charles Sullivan
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Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
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