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 days roving question Martha suggests Has a little child ever changed your life Oliver gets answers from two slowtalking 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 mechanics 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 doesnt want him returned And Oliver what becomes of him