Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Paulette Goddard as Martha Pease
Burgess Meredith as Oliver M. Pease
James Stewart as Slim
Henry Fonda as Lank Solsky
Harry James as Harry James
Dorothy Lamour as Gloria Manners
Victor Moore as Ashton Carrington
Fred MacMurray as Al
William Demarest as Floyd
Hugh Herbert as Eli Hobbs
Charles D. Brown as Mr. Sadd
Eduardo Ciannelli as Maxim
Betty Caldwell as Cynthia Robbs
Dorothy Ford as Lola Maxim
Carl Switzer as Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz
Eilene Janssen as Peggy Thorndyke
Frank Moran as Bookie
David Whorf as Edgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan
Henry Hull as Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)
Chester Clute as Bank Teller (uncredited)
Charles Laughton as Reverend
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