6/10
How Does A Child Change A Movie
14 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is done in sequences and cobbled together later which makes it different than most films. It has 4 Directors listed including some top ones and an A-List cast that includes some folks from the silent era as well as some top stars. Headliners are Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith, but in the late 1940's there are some other films that have casts stacked like this. Meredith is the only actor whose role ties together the entire movie.

This has a scene with William Demarest and Fred McMurray which reminded me of all the scenes they do together in MY Three Sons much later. Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda in the same film is a rare thing, we have that here. Harry James from the big band era, and a young Burgess Meredith as a reporter.

This movie is rich with character actors and the script is written by some top screen writers. So is it perfect? It is an experiment back in this era and because of the cast it is worth a view. Each sequence varies in quality and you will like some of them better than others. At least that is what I did.
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