After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
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Title: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Eddie Bracken | ... | Norval Jones | |
| Betty Hutton | ... | Trudy Kockenlocker | |
| Diana Lynn | ... | Emmy Kockenlocker | |
| William Demarest | ... | Constable Edmund Kockenlocker | |
| Porter Hall | ... | Justice of the Peace | |
| Emory Parnell | ... | Mr. Tuerck | |
| Al Bridge | ... | Mr. Johnson (as Alan Bridge) | |
| Julius Tannen | ... | Mr. Rafferty | |
| Victor Potel | ... | Newspaper Editor | |
| Brian Donlevy | ... | Governor McGinty (as McGinty) | |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | The Boss | |
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Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember--and she's pregnant. Norval Jones, the 4-F local boy who's been in love with Trudy for years, tries to help her find a way out of her predicament. Trudy complicates matters further by falling for Norval, and events snowball from there. Written by James Meek <james@oz.net>
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The True Story of Trudy Kockenlocker, who kissed the Boys Goodbye... REGIMENT BY REGIMENT! See more »Parents Guide:
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February 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek See more »Filming Locations:
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the Top 100 Funniest American Movies. See more »Goofs
When Norval and Mr. Kockenlocker are sitting on the front porch talking, Mr. Kockenlocker is cleaning his gun. He has an automatic pistol, he cocks it to open the chamber for cleaning, and in the next scene he cocks it again. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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This is an amusing farce guaranteed to bring some good hearted laughter as it recounts the story of a small town girl's indiscretion that has to be covered up with a series of lies. Betty Hutton is terrific as the partyloving gal who can't remember the man she married during a drunken joyride. Eddie Bracken as her nerdy but loyal boyfriend has the kind of role he was born to play--as does William Demarest as her outraged father who always has his shotgun ready and complains about having two rambunctious daughters. Diana Lynn shines as Betty's younger sister. Her scenes with William Demarest are among the funniest in the entire film--even though her 14 year-old seems a bit too sensible at such a tender age.
All of the main cast are perfect. Demarest never had a funnier role in his life. His pratfalls are performed as naturally as the great silent comics.
The technique of long takes with lots of dialogue going on must have been very demanding for Hutton and Bracken--but they handle it brilliantly. Many of their scenes are done in one long take and it's amazing how much material and physical comedy they had to memorize for such extended takes.
Some of the storyline seems a bit dated by today's standards but on the whole the film holds up well in the laugh department. I liked it much better than HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO with Bracken in a similar role.
Preston Sturges deserved his nomination for Best Original Screenplay but lost the award to Lamar Trotti for WILSON. Sturges was also nominated the same year for HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO.