On Our Merry Way

1948
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1h 47m

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James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Harry James, Dorothy Lamour, and Fred MacMurray in On Our Merry Way (1948)

Slapstick Workplace Drama Comedy Music Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThree short stories revolving around the topic of the daily question posed by the roving reporter to the readers of a daily newspaper.Three short stories revolving around the topic of the daily question posed by the roving reporter to the readers of a daily newspaper.Three short stories revolving around the topic of the daily question posed by the roving reporter to the readers of a daily newspaper.

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Anecdotes
"A Miracle Can Happen" was the original title of this film when released on Feb. 3, 1948 at the Warner Theater in Manhattan. It consisted of three short stories (about 20-25 minutes each) linked by the Burgess Meredith character. He played a reporter looking for a good scoop, and in the second sequence, Charles Laughton played a bible-reading minister. When it was released nationally in June, however, it had been decided that the religious story would be dropped and replaced by a more comic one featuring Dorothy Lamour. The film in this new version was then re-titled "On Our Merry Way". However, prints of the original film had already been sent abroad for dubbing. In Spain, "A Miracle Can Happen" became "Una Encuesta Llamada Milagro", complete with the original Laughton sequence intact (but without the alternative Lamour story). As it has been released on DVD there and retains the English-language soundtrack, the movie can be seen as it was originally intended.

Citations
Slim: [of Lola] Wouldn't it be wonderful if she was a little colored boy and we could believe all this?

Autres versions
The version released in Spain and always seen on both TV and DVD, in dubbed and subtitled versions (bearing the title card "A Miracle Can Happen"), includes the Charles Laughton episode but not the Dorothy Lamour one.

Connexions
Featured in Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)

Bandes originales
Baby Made a Change in Me
(uncredited)
Written by Donald Kahn and Skitch Henderson

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4/10

It starts out so promising...

And then just sinks into boredom.

Martha Pease (Paulette Goddard) demands that her husband Oliver (Burgess Meredith) tell the newspaper where he works as the "Roving Reporter" that he be allowed to pick his own subjects. She will know if he did that by reading the next edition's Rambling Reporter column and seeing that his idea - How has a small child influenced your life? - is the theme of the column.

After leaving his apartment that morning Oliver confesses to the audience that he is not the Roving Reporter. He is in fact just a classified ad clerk, but that he told his wife this lie before they were married and hasn't had the heart to tell her the truth ever since. As a result he has been lying about his salary and thus he is in peril of having his furniture repossessed and he owes gambling debts. This is all very interesting, but then it just bogs down. And that is hard to believe when one of the vignettes involving people on the street actually being interviewed includes James Stewart and Henry Fonda, good friends in real life, on screen together.

When I first sat down to watch this I wondered why I had never heard of this one. By the time it finished I knew the answer to that question. Avoid.