Martha Cheavens' story was adapted by Wanda Tuchock and Melvin Levy. Anne Baxter runs a poor Florida family of much younger kids without help from 'Grandfeathers' Charles Winninger. Anne Revere (and maid Marietta Canty) are neighbours. John Hodiak is the soldier who comes to lunch (eventually).
And that's it. A delightful film. The kids are Bobby Driscoll, Connie Marshall and Billy Cummings. With Chill Wills, Robert Bailey and Jane Darwell.
It's slightly trippy seeing Russell Spencer and Lyle Wheeler's 20th Century Fox fake Florida. Joe MacDonald's the photographer. The music's by Alfred Newman.
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