Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a cooking column for a magazine. In her column she talks of her farm in the country, and her cooking skills, her husband and baby. Problem is these are things only in her column and not in real life. Her boss, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) wants to host a returning seaman, Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan), for Christmas. He was shipwrecked for sometime with little or no food and needs Christmas with a family with good food. After inviting the seaman, the boss also invites himself.
In coming up with a solution she decides to marry a friend, John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner) who has been asking her about marriage, and spending Christmas at his farm in Connecticut. She also invites her uncle, who is a chef, Felix Bassenak (S.Z. Sakall) to come and cook. The baby will be handled by an actual baby who is tended by Sloan's maid. The preacher will marry them before anyone arrives; but the others arrive too soon and they are not married.
As she gets to know the sailor, Lane is more and more stricken. However she lays her part as a married woman with a baby. Comedy comes in as Lane doesn't know cooking, or caring for babies. As she gets to know Jones better, she also has to postpone the wedding, Felix helps her in this regard.
Except for her budding love for the sailor, things are going well. However she and the sailor get in a sleigh, and the horse takes off with them. They are arrestrd for horse stealing. Felix is left to ten the baby. When the mother picks up, she is observed by Yardley, who proclaims kidnapping and calls the police. Everything now has to come out. She is fired, but then rehired with a raise as Felix tells hr boss she is going to a different magazine.
I found this movie to be fun. The humor is nice and there are some slapstick situations. Felix tells Jones what has been happening and he funs fun chasing her around while she pretends to be married, but really wants him too.
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