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On Our Merry Way

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?

1948 |1h 47m |  Comedy, Music, Romance

Cast

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Paulette Goddard

Martha Pease

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Burgess Meredith

Oliver M. Pease

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James Stewart

Slim

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Henry Fonda

Lank Solsky

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Harry James

Harry James

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Dorothy Lamour

Gloria Manners

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Victor Moore

Ashton Carrington

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Fred MacMurray

Al

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William Demarest

Floyd

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Hugh Herbert

Eli Hobbs

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Charles D. Brown

Mr. Sadd

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Eduardo Ciannelli

Maxim

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Betty Caldwell

Cynthia Robbs

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Dorothy Ford

Lola Maxim

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Carl Switzer

Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz

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Eilene Janssen

Peggy Thorndyke

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Frank Moran

Bookie

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Henry Hull

Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)

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Chester Clute

Bank Teller (uncredited)

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Charles Laughton

Reverend

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Status

Released

Language

English

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