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On Our Merry Way ★★½ A Miracle Can Happen 1948

Episodic comedy with Meredith starring as Oliver Pease, a would-be newspaper reporter (he actually works on the classifieds), asking the question “How has a child changed your life?” Among those queried are a couple of jazz musicians (Fonda, Stewart), Hollywood bit players (Lamour, Moore), and con men (Demerest, MacMurray). Goddard, who was married to Meredith at the time, plays his wife in the film. 107m/B VHS, DVD . Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Hugh Herbert, Eilene Janssen, Dorothy Ford, David Whorf; D: King Vidor, Leslie Fenton; W: Laurence Stallings, Lou Breslow; C: John Seitz, Ernest Laszlo, Gordon Avil, Joseph Biroc, Edward Cronjager; M: Heinz Roemheld.

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