Good sequel, also written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, puts Spencer Tracy as potential grand-father. (He, like them, didn't like sequels.) He plays it beautifully, often in long takes with Joan Bennett or Elizabeth Taylor. Loved the moment where he's taken a sleeping pill, the phone rings, he gets up and starts to dress. And averting daughter-leaving-home crisis while his wife is blissfully asleep - by the time he gets back it's morning. Also losing baby sequence.
Public domain film comes out in abhorrent copies. It was originally shot by John Alton, for MGM.
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