Main Cast: Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Marian Hailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Vincent Gardenia
Release Year: 1969
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Jenny (Marlo Thomas) is a single expectant mother who receives an offer of marriage from Delano (Alan Alda). He wants to avoid the military draft and agrees to marry Jenny despite the fact he is not the child's father, proposing for strictly practical reasons: the baby will have a name and he will escape the draft. Their scheme does not work out quite the way they had hoped, however. Problems arise when Jenny adds romance and love as an afterthought to the arrangement, and while she goes ahead and has the baby, Delano is not spared from his military obligations. As she cares for her newborn in the maternity ward, Delano sits silently and ponders his uncertain future in this routine melodrama. Vincent Gardenia plays Jenny's father, an eccentric collector of antique dentures. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Trevor Williams - Art Director, Ann Roth - Costume Designer, Fred T. Gallo - First Assistant Director, Michael Hertzberg - First Assistant Director, George Bloomfield - Director, Kent McKinney - Editor, Michael Small - Composer (Music Score), Michael Benedikt - Songwriter, Nilsson - Songwriter, Thomas E. Case - Makeup, John Alese - Makeup, David Quaid - Cinematographer, Edgar J. Scherick - Producer, John Alan Hicks - Set Designer, James Shields - Sound/Sound Designer, Diana Gould - Screen Story, George Bloomfield - Screenwriter, Martin Luvat - Screenwriter
Marlo Thomas plays the title role; a young small-town woman, who moves away to the city when she becomes pregnant through a one-night stand. She meets film director Delano (Alda), who has received a draft notice and does not want to be inducted into the Army. Jenny and Delano take a liking to each other. Learning that an acquaintance got out of having to serve by having a baby on the way, Delano offers to marry Jenny, claim paternity and support her baby, if she in turn will play along, and he can avoid being drafted.
The movie follows the months until Jenny's baby is born, and the ups and downs of their in-name-only marriage (including a visit back to her family and hometown, and his ongoing relationship with another woman), as Delano and Jenny await the outcome of his draft case.
