You Belong to Me (1941 film)

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You Belong to Me
Directed by	Wesley Ruggles
Produced by	Wesley Ruggles
Written by	Dalton Trumbo (story) Claude Binyon
Starring	Barbara Stanwyck Henry Fonda
Release date(s)	October 22, 1941
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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You Belong to Me, released in the United Kingdom as Good Morning, Doctor, is a 1941 romantic comedy film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

[edit] Plot summary

Doctor Helen Hunt (Barbara Stanwyck) meets millionaire playboy Peter Kirk (Henry Fonda) in an unusual way: he crashes practically at her feet at a ski resort. He insists that only she can treat his (minor) injuries and soon proposes marriage, which she accepts.

On their wedding night, Helen is called away by a medical emergency. When she returns, Peter has fallen asleep. Peter becomes jealous and gets into confrontations with two of her patients, Robert Andrews (Gordon Jones) and Frederick Vandemer (Roger Clark). He is chagrined to learn that Vandemer had also staged a skiing accident to get to know Helen and that Vandemer asked her to marry him.

Helen recruits Billings (Edgar Buchanan), Peter's groundskeeper, to try unsuccessfully to interest the idle Peter in gardening. After another, very embarrassing altercation with Vandermer, Peter gets a job as a tie salesman under the alias of "John Jenkins" to try to please his wife. Peter finds that he likes working and becomes ambitious. Helen is delighted and decides to retire and become a housewife. However, the other department store employees recognize him and resent him for taking a job away from somebody who actually needs it, resulting in his firing.

Billings gives Peter an idea with the suggestion that he create jobs with his money. Peter decides to buy a nearly-bankrupt hospital, which will require most of his income to keep running, and make Helen the chief of staff.