On Our Merry Way
On Our Merry Way 1948 is an American comedy film, produced by Benedict Bogeaus and Burgess Meredith, and released by United Artists. At the time of its release, King Vidor and Leslie Fenton were credited with its direction, although the DVD lists John Huston and George Stevens, who assisted with one of the segments, as well. The screenplay by Laurence Stallings and Lou Breslow, based on an original story by Arch Oboler, is similar in style to that of Tales of Manhattan 1942, another anthology film made up of several vignettes linked by a single theme. The picture stars Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore and Fred MacMurray, and marks the first joint movie appearance of Stewart and Fonda, who play a pair of musicians in their section of the film.
Jazz musicians Slim and Lank James Stewart and Henry Fonda mistake the word baby for babe and reminisce about a female trumpeter they met when their tour bus broke down in a rundown California seaside resort, where they tried to fix a talent contest so the mayors son would win.Hollywood film star Gloria Manners Dorothy Lamour recalls the time she was hired to work with precocious child star Peggy Thorndyke Eileen Janssen, who unintentionally triggered her big break in the movies, transforming her from a drab Iowa secretary into a Polynesian goddess. ........
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