Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Van Johnson
as Joe Bedloe
Janet Leigh
as Connie Bedloe
Louis Calhern
as Opie Bedloe
Walter Slezak
as Emil Spangenberg
Gene Lockhart
as Dean Edward E. Magruder
Hayden Rorke
as Prof. Simmons
Robert Burton
as Dr. Willis Shoop
Marilyn Erskine
as Phyllis Archibald
Kathleen Lockhart
as Mrs. Martha Magruder
Arthur Space
as Prof. Archie Archibald
Barbara Ruick
as Barbara
June Whitley Taylor
as Betty Simmons (as June Whitley)
