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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is a american film of genre War directed by Preston Sturges released in USA on 19 january 1944 with Eddie Bracken
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 january 1944
Length 1h39
Directed by Preston Sturges
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating75%
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 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.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and 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 movie history.
The 1958 film Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis, was loosely based on The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Preston Sturges received a credit for that film, but did not actually participate in the project.
This is one of the few sound films before 1950 of Paramount that do not belong to EMKA, along with Sorry, Wrong Number and The Buccaneer.
Synopsis
Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) is a small-town girl with a soft spot for soldiers. She wakes up one morning after a wild farewell party for a group of them to find that while drunk the night before, she married a soldier whose name she can't remember, except that "it had a z in it. Like Ratzkiwatzki [...] or was it Zitzkiwitzki?" She believes they both used fake names and she doesn't know how to get in touch with him or even what he looks like.Actors
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)
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