
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
Crew

King Vidor
Director

Leslie Fenton
Director

John O'Hara
Writer
Lou Breslow
Screenplay
Laurence Stallings
Screenplay

Arch Oboler
Story

Joseph F. Biroc
Director of Photography

Edward Cronjager
Director of Photography
Gordon Avil
Director of Photography

John F. Seitz
Director of Photography

Burgess Meredith
Producer
Benedict Bogeaus
Producer
Scotty Rackin
Hairstylist
Otis Malcolm
Makeup Artist

Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
Fred Widdowson
Set Decoration
Kenneth Walters
Production Manager
Ernst Fegté
Art Direction
Duncan Cramer
Art Direction
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