On Our Merry Way

King Vidor
1948-02-03

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!
5.5
107 min

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

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