Pinky Wingate (
Judy Garland) is worried about her widowed mother, Dottie (
Mary Astor), who is pursuing a loveless relationship with the town's banker, knowing he can help her fund her children's lives. To help her realize this, Pinky and her friend Buzz (
Freddie Bartholomew) "kidnap" Dottie and her younger brother Billie (
Scotty Beckett), taking them on a road trip to get away from the banker. While they do this, they meet two men, Richard Thurlow (
Walter Pidgeon) and J.J Slattery (
Alan Hale), who they think would be nice husbands for her mother. Her mother falls in love with Richard Thurlow (
Walter Pidgeon) and they go home. ==Cast==