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ComedyMusicRomance

On Our Merry Way

- She's the queen of a Hollywood tong - and a queen, friends, can do nothing wrong! Her public she serves By displaying those curves..She's a miracle in a sarong!

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?

Release Date : 1948-02-03

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Benedict Bogeaus ProductionUnited Artists

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : A Miracle Can Happen

Cast

Paulette Goddard

Character Name : Martha Pease

Original Name : Paulette Goddard

Gender : Female

Burgess Meredith

Character Name : Oliver M. Pease

Original Name : Burgess Meredith

Gender : Male

James Stewart

Character Name : Slim

Original Name : James Stewart

Gender : Male

Henry Fonda

Character Name : Lank Solsky

Original Name : Henry Fonda

Gender : Male

Harry James

Character Name : Harry James

Original Name : Harry James

Gender : Male

Dorothy Lamour

Character Name : Gloria Manners

Original Name : Dorothy Lamour

Gender : Female

Victor Moore

Character Name : Ashton Carrington

Original Name : Victor Moore

Gender : Male

Fred MacMurray

Character Name : Al

Original Name : Fred MacMurray

Gender : Male

William Demarest

Character Name : Floyd

Original Name : William Demarest

Gender : Male

Hugh Herbert

Character Name : Eli Hobbs

Original Name : Hugh Herbert

Gender : Male

Charles D. Brown

Character Name : Mr. Sadd

Original Name : Charles D. Brown

Gender : Male

Eduardo Ciannelli

Character Name : Maxim

Original Name : Eduardo Ciannelli

Gender : Male

Betty Caldwell

Character Name : Cynthia Robbs

Original Name : Betty Caldwell

Gender : Male

Dorothy Ford

Character Name : Lola Maxim

Original Name : Dorothy Ford

Gender : Female

Carl Switzer

Character Name : Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz

Original Name : Carl Switzer

Gender : Male

Eilene Janssen

Character Name : Peggy Thorndyke

Original Name : Eilene Janssen

Gender : Female

Frank Moran

Character Name : Bookie

Original Name : Frank Moran

Gender : Male

David Whorf

Character Name : Edgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan

Original Name : David Whorf

Gender : Male

Henry Hull

Character Name : Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)

Original Name : Henry Hull

Gender : Male

Chester Clute

Character Name : Bank Teller (uncredited)

Original Name : Chester Clute

Gender : Male

Charles Laughton

Character Name : Reverend

Original Name : Charles Laughton

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-04-04

Burgess Meredith is quite good as the henpecked "Oliver Pease". He makes a career out of writing the lost pet notices for his local newspaper. One day, he manages to get the editor to let him do something more substantial and so he must ask three different people whether or not a child has ever changed their life. His first contributors are musicians "Slim" & "Lank" (James Stewart and Henry Fonda); then he asks "Gloria Manners" (Dorothy Lamour) and finally Fred MacMurray ("Al") and his pal "Floyd" (William Demerest). It seems that each of them have either made or lost their way as a result of experiences with children and we learn how each scenario plays out. Stewart/Fonda are on good form with some excellently synchronised musical fraud (and one gets a wetting); Eilene Jackson is Temple-esque as the rather odious "Peggy" and I personally would have shot the final brat of the three - "Zoot" (Carl Switzer) whose voice drove me mad right from the outset. It's not a great film this, the anthology nature doesn't always work and "Mrs. Pease" (Paulette Goddard) could have featured just a bit more - but it's as much a right of passage for the journalist as it is for any of the sprogs, and at times it is entertaining. It's probably most notable for the scene shot with Charles Laughton ending up on the cutting room floor! It was deemed too gritty for this otherwise fluffy affair.