MacMurray Meets Mama Marlene

The usually stern and authoritative Marlene Dietrich reveals previously unexplored reserves of warmth and vulnerability playing a new mother with an infant co-star. Until bad late plot contrivances force her to go over-the-top, she is delightful. Her affectionate and anxious performance believably thaws out an initially cold Fred MacMurray. I felt increasingly fond of her right along with him.