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On Our Merry Way

Duration:
107 min | USA:98 min (re-edited version)
Genres:
Comedy | Music
IMDB rate:
6
Director:
Leslie Fenton
Details
Country: USA
Filming Locations: General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Bobby Barber
Bobby Barber
On Our Merry Way
Paulette Goddard
Martha Pease
James Stewart
Slim
Henry Fonda
Lank Solsky
Dorothy Lamour
Gloria Manners
Fred MacMurray
Al
Burgess Meredith
Oliver M. Pease
Victor Moore
Ashton Carrington
Harry James
Harry James
William Demarest
Floyd
Hugh Herbert
Eli Hobbs
Eduardo Ciannelli
Maxim
Charles D. Brown
Mr. Sadd
Dorothy Ford
Lola Maxim
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz (as Carl Switzer)
Eilene Janssen
Peggy Thorndyke
Betty Caldwell
Cynthia Robbs
Frank Moran
Bookie
David Whorf
Edgar Hobbs, aka Sniffles Dugan
Eddie Borden
Movie Set Assistant (uncredited)
Paul A. Burns
Mr. Hawks, the Publisher (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
Cop (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Man in Musical Contest Audience (uncredited)
George Davis
Mover (uncredited)
Helen Dickson
Operator at Daily Banner (uncredited)
Tom Fadden
Sheriff's Deputy (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
Mr. Sadd's Secretary (uncredited)
Daniel Haight
Squirt - Newspaper Boy (uncredited)
Al Hill
Mover (uncredited)
Charles Anthony Hughes
Cop (uncredited)
Paul Hurst
Sheriff (uncredited)
Leo Kaye
Bartender (uncredited)
Ann Kunde
Phoebe Klott (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Mover (uncredited)
Thomas Martin
'Take' Man on Movie Set (uncredited)
Damian O'Flynn
Charlie Smallwood, Movie Director (uncredited)
Anne O'Neal
Peggy's Mother - Mrs. Thorndyke (uncredited)
Joe Ploski
Musical Performer at Wharf (uncredited)
Lucien Prival
Jackson (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgeway
Autograph Seeker / Woman at Musical Contest (uncredited)
Dewey Robinson
Furniture Repo Man (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Movie Set Assistant (uncredited)
Dick Scott
Big Reporter (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Backstage Actor with Script (uncredited)
Hal Taggart
Man Buying Scarf on Movie Set (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Mover (uncredited)
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Trivia
Charles Laughton portrayed a minister in one sequence which, because of its dramatic tone in an otherwise frothy comedy, wound up on the cutting room floor. Mr. Laughton's segment was replaced with a parody of Dorothy Lamour's South Seas movie epics. Independent producer David O. Selznick offered to buy the film in order to issue the Laughton sequence as a short, scrapping the rest of the picture. Selznick's plan was rejected by producer Benedict Bogeaus and producer-star Burgess Meredith.
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Titled "A Miracle Can Happen", this film debuted on February 3, 1948 at the Warner Theatre in Manhattan. During February, the feature also opened in Philadelphia and Detroit. In June, when released nationally, the picture ran nine minutes shorter than its original 107 minutes, and the film's name had been changed to "On Our Merry Way," thus avoiding any religious connection that moviegoers might assume by seeing the word "miracle" in the title.
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As already stated, "A Miracle Can Happen" was the original title of this film. 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. However, the powers-that-be decided to drop this 'religious' story altogether and it was 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 of course without the alternative Dorothy Lamour story). As it has been released on DVD there, and retains the English-language soundtrack, the movie can now been seen as it was originally intended.
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Bobby Barber
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