
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Cast

William Holden
Johnny Rutledge

Coleen Gray
Prudence Millett

Mary Jane Saunders
May Chalotte

Charles Winninger
Professor Mordecai Ford

Stuart Erwin
Constable Pudge Barnham

Clinton Sundberg
Plato Cassin

Gary Gray
Jan Chalotte

Sig Ruman
Jericho Schlosser

Billy Gray
Feb Chalotte

Lloyd Corrigan
Judge Millett

Frederic Tozere
Jeffrey Gilland Sr.

Peggy Converse
Genevieve Cassin

Arthur Space
Lucius Staley
Warren Farlow
April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow)
Wayne A. Farlow
April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow)
Buddy Clark
Johnny Rutledge (singing voice) (uncredited)

Ruby Dandridge
Lily - the Maid (uncredited)

Tommy Ivo
Jeffrey Gilland Jr. (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard
Townsman (uncredited)

Eddy Waller
White (uncredited)

Dooley Wilson
Blue (uncredited)

Hank Worden
Finnegan (uncredited)
Crew

Norman Foster
Director
Abby Berlin
Director
Aleen Leslie
Screenplay

James Edward Grant
Story
Jerome Thoms
Editor
Burnett Guffey
Director of Photography

S. Sylvan Simon
Producer

Jean Louis
Costume Design
Arthur Morton
Original Music Composer
Frank Tuttle
Set Decoration
Homer Van Pelt
Still Photographer
Carl Anderson
Art Direction














