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Donald Crist, Margaret Sullivan, Van Heflin, Meredith Wilson’s orchestra.
A literary party is being held in a New York apartment on an October afternoon. Maggie is taken aside from the noisy party to be interviewed about her husband Tommy. Maggie recounts the day that she introduced Tommy to her parents. The young men don’t seem to be much more than a bomb, but Maggie sees the potential in him as a writer. Not wanting to see his daughter support a bomb of a husband, her father offers him a job at his company. Tommy turns him down.
Maggie continues to recount her early married life. She looks forward to her first vacation as she supports Tommy in his career. Dreams come crashing down, when she learns Tommy spent the vacation money on typewriter repairs. Will his dreams of future accomplishments help with her tears?
Acceptance letters from editor’s trickle in slowly, but Tommy keeps plugging away at his writing. With his daily routine at writing, Tommy’s health begins to fail. Doctors suspect he has tuberculosis. Moving to Arizona for his health, Maggie only sees Tommy twice a month at the sanitarium.
Pressure is on, and Maggie is recommended to divorce her disabled husband. Should she marry a young and healthy Army officer? Maggie sticks by Tommy, and after four years he has recovered enough and releases his first novel. It still takes hard work on Maggie’s part to provide finances before the book can be released. As Tommy moved on with his young, smart and pretty agent? Worries begin to set in for Maggie that she may not be rejected because of her looks. Should she leave Tommy for that adoring Army officer? Just when doubts are strongest, Tommy comes in to assure her that she is not pretty, but she is beautiful.
