She's the queen of a Hollywood tong - and a queen, friends, can do nothing wrong! Her public she serves By displaying those curves..She's a miracle in a sarong!
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?
- 5.5
- 1948
- Released
- 1h 47m
Paulette Goddard
Martha Pease
Burgess Meredith
Oliver M. Pease
James Stewart
Slim
Henry Fonda
Lank Solsky
Harry James
Harry James
Dorothy Lamour
Gloria Manners
Victor Moore
Ashton Carrington
Fred MacMurray
Al
William Demarest
Floyd
Hugh Herbert
Eli Hobbs
Charles D. Brown
Mr. Sadd
Eduardo Ciannelli
Maxim
Betty Caldwell
Cynthia Robbs
Dorothy Ford
Lola Maxim
Carl Switzer
Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz
Eilene Janssen
Peggy Thorndyke
Frank Moran
Bookie
Henry Hull
Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Charles Laughton
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Reviews
Burgess Meredith is quite good as the henpecked "Oliver Pease". He makes a career out of writing the lost pet notices for his local newspaper. One day, he manages to get the editor to let him do something more substantial and so he must ask three different people whether or not a child has ever changed their life. His first contributors are musicians "Slim" & "Lank" (James Stewart and Henry Fonda)