by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The German It's Easy to Become a Father spends much of its running time disproving its title. Lillian Harvey plays Harriet, an American actress who discovers an abandoned baby in the back seat of her car. Simultaneously, lazy young Lord Fairfax (Harry Haim) is being kicked out of his home by his father, who wants the boy to make something of himself. Through a series of circumstances that defy explanation or logic, the public at large come to believe that Lord Fairfax and Harriet are the out-of-wedlock parents of the foundling infant. Based on a novel by Ernst Von Wolzogen, this early Lillian Harvey vehicle was originally released in 1926 as Vater Verden ist Nacht Schwer.
