While listening to a recording of “You Were Meant for Me (1929 song),” Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins lecting on her past. Roger (Cary Grant) and Julie Adams suffer a tragedy when she Miscarriage in an earthquake during their 1930 stay in Japan (a remarkably realistic re-creation of an earlier Great Kanto Earthquake). They are told that she cannot have children. They request to adopt a two-year old boy, but ultimately adopt a much younger girl. They struggle to make ends meet and to retain their parental rights when Roger’s newspaper-publishing business fails. When the little girl dies suddenly, the emotional strain threatens to destroy their marriage. Songs mark episodes in the action from Gramophone record from their collection—the title ers to a song of the same name. In the end, they are offered the opportunity to adopt a little boy who matches their original request, miraculously saving their marriage.
