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