The Egg and I

"Who, us?" shriek teenage Anne and Joan when asked to help. But they find themselves surrounded by peeping chicks and everyone has to move fast

To Anne, with her eyes on a good-looking neighbor boy named Thad, this is fun

But how long will it remain fun to get up at four, put the coffee on, go out to the baby chicks with warm water, put toast in the oven, go out to the chicks with mash, set the table and then out to the chicks again?

There is a boisterous scene when Joan, having corralled a boyfriend, entertains him under an umbrella while water drips through the leaky roof

In winter, their only entertainment is to sit with the mail-order catalog studying plumbing ads

As failure threatens the chicken farm, Betty is finally ready to give up, but there is a funny, tender scene in which they realize that they are not quitters after all

Much heartwarming comedy unfolds as they learn to cope with the Egg

cast of M9,F13