The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943)
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Cast & Crew.
Eddie Bracken
Norval Jones
Betty Hutton
Trudy Kockenlocker
Diana Lynn
Emmy Kockenlocker
William Demarest
Constable Edmund Kockenlocker
Porter Hall
Jacob Woodson, Justice of the Peace
Emory Parnell
Mr. Tuerck
Al Bridge
Mr. Johnson
Julius Tannen
Mr. Rafferty
Victor Potel
Newspaper Editor
Brian Donlevy
Governor McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
Chester Conklin
Pete (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Mayor (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
Homecoming Spectator (uncredited)
J. Farrell MacDonald
Sheriff (uncredited)
Frank Moran
Military Police Sergeant #1 (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
Mrs. Mariah Woodson (uncredited)
Esther Howard
Sally (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Benito Mussolini (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Bobby Watson
Adolf Hitler (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Dr. Meyer (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Homecoming Spectator (uncredited)
Jan Buckingham
Nurse (uncredited)
Georgia Caine
Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Bill Cartledge
Short Soldier (uncredited)
Hal Craig
State Policeman (uncredited)
Roger Creed
State Policeman (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Man (uncredited)
Budd Fine
Military Police Sergeant #2 (uncredited)
Kenneth Gibson
Secret Service Man (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Army Officer (uncredited)
George Melford
U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
Jack Norton
Country Club Man Ordering Champagne (uncredited)
Spec O'Donnell
Son of Townsman (uncredited)
Keith Richards
Secret Service Man (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
Mr. Schwartz (uncredited)
Freddie Steele
Soldier (uncredited)
Connie Tompkins
Cecelia (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Military Police Driver (uncredited)
Conrad Wiedell
Dancing Soldier (uncredited)
Rudy Germane
Police Officer (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Reporter (uncredited)
Preston Sturges
Director / Writer / Producer
Charles Bradshaw
Original Music Composer
Leo Shuken
Original Music Composer
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Release DateDecember 12, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Content RatingNR
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall. Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff reprise their roles from Sturges' 1940 film The Great McGinty. Set against the backdrop of World War II-era America, its plot follows a wayward young woman who, after attending a party with soldiers in her small town, awakens to find herself married and pregnant, with no memory of her new suitor's identity.
Sturges began developing the idea for the film in the late 1930s, and wrote both Hutton's and Demarest's roles with the actors in mind. Principal photography took place between late 1942 and early 1943. Early into production, the film was met by considerable objections from the Hays Office for its candid depiction of an unwed pregnant mother, as well as for its representation of American soldiers, which the United States War Department felt may be potentially unflattering.
The film's narrative structure is shaped around the titular "miracle"—the lead character's birth of sextuplets—being revealed at the end of the film, and Paramount Pictures promoted it with the suggestion that audiences and the press avoid revealing its surprise ending.
Released in January 1944, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek was met by critical praise at the time of its release, and continues to receive generally positive reception in modern reviews. It was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2001, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film ranks #54 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list of the top 100 funniest films in history.