![]() Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. ensues in this crazy but biting satire of home-front America during World War II. Paramount had such a glut of movies in the can that it didn't arrive in theaters until early 1944. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek was actually filmed in late 1942 and early 1943. WITH: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest. Eddie Bracken and the cast of Hail the Conquering Hero (1944). Betty Hutton, William Demarest, Eddie Bracken, and Diana Lynn in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Edward Vincent 'Eddie' Bracken was an American actor. WITH: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest. ![]() WITH: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. a small-town policemans daughter who attends a farewell dance for WWII soldiers. The Palm Beach Story DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges. Sturges was nominated for his Original Screenplay (competing in the category against his own Hail the Conquering Hero, which also starred Bracken). When her childhood friend Norval Jones (Sturges’s favorite small-town schnook Eddie Bracken) tries to help her out of her predicament, the complications only increase and Trudy unexpectedly falls for her old pal. ![]() The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek In Sturges’s most censor-defying farce, Betty Hutton is Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town policeman’s daughter who attends a farewell dance for WWII soldiers only to later find that she’s become the bride of the now-missing Private Ratzkiwatzki. Jojo Jordan - (Feb 11, 1940) Jojo Jordan - Replacement (Apr 1940 - May 18, 1940) Musical Comedy Original. Too Many Girls (May 18, 1940) Performer: Eddie Bracken. From its frenetic main title sequence to its jaw-dropping finale, The Palm Beach Story is Sturges at his most inventive, unpredictable, and inimitable. Richard Sherman - Replacement () Play Comedy Original. Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea are the loving but financially struggling couple who find themselves tempted by new partners Rudy Vallee is the millionaire who woos Colbert and Mary Astor is Vallee’s divorced sister who sets her sights on McCrea. biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death, Real name. The Palm Beach Story The archetypal romantic comedy storyline about a divorcing couple who find themselves falling for their mates all over again gets turned upside down and given a good shaking in one of Preston Sturges’s most uproarious farces.
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