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Release Date:
February 3, 1948
Original Title:
On Our Merry Way
Alternate Titles:
A Miracle Can Happen
El camino de la felicidad
Kom och blås!
La folle enquête
La strada della felicità
Meidän iloinen joukkomme
No Nosso Alegre Caminho
Sto haroumeno dromo mas
Tudo Pode Acontecer
Una encuesta llamada milagro
Genres:
Comedy | Music | Romance
Production Companies:
Benedict Bogeaus Production
United Artists
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 107
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?
Art Direction:
Ernst Fegté
Duncan Cramer
Director:
Leslie Fenton
King Vidor
Director of Photography:
Joseph F. Biroc
Edward Cronjager
Gordon Avil
John F. Seitz
Hairstylist:
Scotty Rackin
Makeup Artist:
Otis Malcolm
Original Music Composer:
Heinz Roemheld
Producer:
Benedict Bogeaus
Burgess Meredith
Production Manager:
Kenneth Walters
Screenplay:
Laurence Stallings
Lou Breslow
Set Decoration:
Fred Widdowson
Story:
Arch Oboler
Writer:
John O'Hara
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