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Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Button, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken; TIME...
...Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a daftly endearing innocent who gradually remembers one morning that she married a transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as she is of her widower Poppa (William Demarest), she knows better than to confide in him; he has the worst film temper since the twilight of the Keystone Cops. But her young sister Emily (Diana Lynn) knows precisely what Trudy must do. She must marry Norval before he knows what...
...true-confessions Dumas. Sturges, like René Clair, has always understood the liberating power of blending comedy and realism, wild farce and cool intellect. But the best of the domestic and anarchic satire cannot be suggested on paper; it is too thoroughly cinematic. It reaches its perfection in William Demarest, whose performance is one of the few solid-gold pieces of screen acting in recent years. But chief credit for The Miracle must go to Sturges, who has given the slick, growing genteelism of U.S. cinema the roughest and healthiest shaking up it has had since the disease became serious...