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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?
Theatrical
Feb 3, 1948
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 6, 2000
Directors
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Benedict Bogeaus Production, United Artists
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Cast
Full credits →P
Paulette Goddard
Martha Pease
B
Burgess Meredith
Oliver M. Pease
J
James Stewart
Slim
H
Henry Fonda
Lank Solsky
H
Harry James
Harry James
D
Dorothy Lamour
Gloria Manners
V
Victor Moore
Ashton Carrington
F
Fred MacMurray
Al
W
William Demarest
Floyd
H
Hugh Herbert
Eli Hobbs
C
Charles D. Brown
Mr. Sadd
E
Eduardo Ciannelli
Maxim
B
Betty Caldwell
Cynthia Robbs
D
Dorothy Ford
Lola Maxim
C
Carl Switzer
Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz
E
Eilene Janssen
Peggy Thorndyke
F
Frank Moran
Bookie
D
David Whorf
Edgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan
H
Henry Hull
Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)
C
Chester Clute
Bank Teller (uncredited)
