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On Our Merry Way

Comedy · Music

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!

5.7(17) 2/3/1948 1h 47m
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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?

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Top Cast

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

Martha Pease

Burgess Meredith

Burgess Meredith

Oliver M. Pease

James Stewart

James Stewart

Slim

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Lank Solsky

Harry James

Harry James

Harry James

Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour

Gloria Manners

Victor Moore

Victor Moore

Ashton Carrington

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

Al

Directed by

King Vidor

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CinemaSerf

6/10

4/4/2022

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-e

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