On Our Merry Way

The story

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?

Cast

P Paulette GoddardMartha Pease B Burgess MeredithOliver M. Pease J James StewartSlim H Henry FondaLank Solsky H Harry JamesHarry James D Dorothy LamourGloria Manners V Victor MooreAshton Carrington F Fred MacMurrayAl W William DemarestFloyd H Hugh HerbertEli Hobbs C Charles D. BrownMr. Sadd E Eduardo CiannelliMaxim

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B Betty CaldwellCynthia Robbs D Dorothy FordLola Maxim C Carl SwitzerLeopold 'Zoot' Wirtz E Eilene JanssenPeggy Thorndyke F Frank MoranBookie D David WhorfEdgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan H Henry HullDying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited) C Chester CluteBank Teller (uncredited) C Charles LaughtonReverend