Everybody's Baby is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane and Spring Byington.
[2] Dr. Pillcoff (Reginald Denny), who identifies himself as a child psychologist, arrives in the rural township carrying radical views on raising children, namely Behaviorism.
The fathers in the community look into the matter and suspect that the so-called child expert is a fraud and take steps to expel the disruptive intruder.
[3] The topic of scientifically informed methods of child rearing and psychology were widespread in the United States at the time the Everybody's Baby was produced.
Pillcoff” played by Reginald Denny is based on real-life academic John B. Watson, who espoused the theory of Behaviorism in the 1920s and 30s.