''Yes Sir, That's My Baby'' is a 1949 American musical

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directed by George Sherman and starring

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and

Gloria DeHaven Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Early life DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter De ...

. The film is noted for O'Connor's dance "They Haven't Figured Out a Woman" that he does at the

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. O'Connor and DeHaven had been friends as children and this was the first of two films they were in together, the other being '' Out to Sea'' nearly 50 years later. It was known as ''And Baby Makes Three''.

Plot

After the war, Granger College has a lot of students who are parents of children. Among them are Bill and Sarah Jane Winfield, who have a baby they've nicknamed Boopkins. Bill is a football player for Granger, but a tired Sarah Jane, who's also a student, resents that Bill neglects his household duties, leaving the child-raising to her. She demands that he quit the football team. Soon other wives of players begin doing likewise, leading the team's coach, Professor Hartley, to call them henpecked, while Professor Boland takes the women's side, resulting in a campus feud. Granger begins losing football games because Bill's replacement, Arnold Schultze, is not as good a player. The feud escalates between the professors, who were once romantically involved but have since been engaged in a long-running feud. Bill and Sarah Jane try to get them back together. When he learns that the coach is going to lose his job due to Granger's failures on the field, Bill declares that he is returning to the team for the season's final game. Complications involving the baby distract him in mid-game, but with Boland's help, he returns just in time to score the game-winning touchdown and send everyone home happy.

Cast

as William Waldo Winfield *

Charles Coburn Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times – in ''The Devil and Miss Jones'' (1941), '' The More the M ...

as Professor Hartley *

as Sarah Jane Winfield * Joshua Shelley as Arnold Schultze * Barbara Brown as Professor Boland * Jim Davis as Joe Tascarelli * James Brown as Tony Cresnovitch *

Hal Baylor Hal Harvey Fieberling (born Hal David Britton); December 10, 1918 – January 15, 1998 known professionally as Hal Baylor, was an American actor, probably best known for his role as Pvt. 'Sky' Choynski in the film ''Sands of Iwo Jima''. In 1 ...

as Pudge Flugeldorfer (credited as Hal Fieberling) * Jack Lambert as Leslie Schulze * Michael Dugan as Eddie Koslowski

References

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* 1940s English-language films 1949 films American black-and-white films Films directed by George Sherman Films scored by Walter Scharf 1949 musical comedy films American musical comedy films Universal Pictures films 1940s American films {{musical-comedy-film-stub