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03/02/1948 Comedy, Music, Romance 1h 47m
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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!

Overview

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?

  1. Leslie Fenton

    Director

  2. King Vidor

    Director

  3. John O'Hara

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Paulette Goddard

    Martha Pease

  2. Burgess Meredith

    Oliver M. Pease

  3. James Stewart

    Slim

  4. Henry Fonda

    Lank Solsky

  5. Harry James

    Harry James

  6. Dorothy Lamour

    Gloria Manners

  7. Victor Moore

    Ashton Carrington

  8. Fred MacMurray

    Al

  9. William Demarest

    Floyd

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 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 ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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