Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
Jeanne Crain
as Peggy Taylor
William Holden
as Jason Taylor
Edmund Gwenn
as Prof. Henry C. Barnes
Gene Lockhart
as Prof. Edward Bell
Griff Barnett
as Dr. Philip Conway
Randy Stuart
as Dorothy
Betty Lynn
as Wife
Marion Marshall
as Ruth
Pati Behrs
as Jeanne
Charles Lane
as Prof. Collins (uncredited)
Gene Nelson
as Jerry (uncredited)
Ray Walker
as Carson (uncredited)