Full of Life

Based on a novel by John Fante, this is the story of a young couple--a very Italian-Catholic young man and a nice but religiously unaffiliated young woman--who get married in a civil ceremony, much to the consternation of the husband's Italian family. The movie begins with Judy Holliday in her last month of pregnancy finally giving in and agreeing to a Catholic ceremony before her baby is born. Fitted with a maternity gown and whisked off to a ceremony on the verge of delivery, the real sto...