On Our Merry Way (1948)
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?
Directors:
King Vidor, Leslie Fenton.
Writers:
Lou Breslow, Laurence Stallings.
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Paulette Goddard as Martha Pease |
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Burgess Meredith as Oliver M. Pease |
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James Stewart as Slim |
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Henry Fonda as Lank Solsky |
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Harry James as Harry James |
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Dorothy Lamour as Gloria Manners |
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Victor Moore as Ashton Carrington |
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Fred MacMurray as Al |
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William Demarest as Floyd |
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Hugh Herbert as Eli Hobbs |
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Charles D. Brown as Mr. Sadd |
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Eduardo Ciannelli as Maxim |
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Betty Caldwell as Cynthia Robbs |
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Dorothy Ford as Lola Maxim |
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Carl Switzer as Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz |
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Eilene Janssen as Peggy Thorndyke |
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Frank Moran as Bookie |
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David Whorf as Edgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan |
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Henry Hull as Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited) |
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Chester Clute as Bank Teller (uncredited) |
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Charles Laughton as Reverend |
| Directing | King Vidor | Director |
| Directing | Leslie Fenton | Director |
| Sound | Heinz Roemheld | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Ernst Fegté | Art Direction |
| Art | Duncan Cramer | Art Direction |
| Production | Burgess Meredith | Producer |
| Production | Benedict Bogeaus | Producer |
| Art | Fred Widdowson | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Scotty Rackin | Hairstylist |
| Production | Kenneth Walters | Production Manager |
| Camera | Joseph F. Biroc | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Otis Malcolm | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Edward Cronjager | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Gordon Avil | Director of Photography |
| Camera | John F. Seitz | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Arch Oboler | Story |
| Writing | John O'Hara | Writer |
| Writing | Lou Breslow | Screenplay |
| Writing | Laurence Stallings | Screenplay |
