On Our Merry Way
1948Oliver 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?
Acted in
Paulette Goddard
as Martha Pease
Burgess Meredith
as Oliver M. Pease
James Stewart
as Slim
Henry Fonda
as Lank Solsky
Harry James
as Harry James
Dorothy Lamour
as Gloria Manners
Victor Moore
as Ashton Carrington
Fred MacMurray
as Al
William Demarest
as Floyd
Hugh Herbert
as Eli Hobbs
Charles D. Brown
as Mr. Sadd
Eduardo Ciannelli
as Maxim
Betty Caldwell
as Cynthia Robbs
Dorothy Ford
as Lola Maxim
Carl Switzer
as Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz
Eilene Janssen
as Peggy Thorndyke
Frank Moran
as Bookie
David Whorf
as Edgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan
Henry Hull
as Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)
Chester Clute
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
Charles Laughton
as Reverend