On Our Merry Way

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?

• Leslie FentonDirector
• King VidorDirector
• Heinz RoemheldOriginal Music Composer
• Lou BreslowScreenplay
• Laurence StallingsScreenplay
• John O'HaraWriter

• Paulette GoddardMartha Pease
• Burgess MeredithOliver M. Pease
• James StewartSlim
• Henry FondaLank Solsky
• Harry JamesHarry James
• Dorothy LamourGloria Manners
• Victor MooreAshton Carrington
• Fred MacMurrayAl
• William DemarestFloyd
• Hugh HerbertEli Hobbs
• Charles D. BrownMr. Sadd
• Eduardo CiannelliMaxim