The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
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| The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | |
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| Directed by | Preston Sturges |
| Produced by | Preston Sturges |
| Written by | Preston Sturges |
| Starring | Eddie Bracken Betty Hutton Diana Lynn William Demarest |
| Music by | Charles Bradshaw Leo Shuken Gil Grau |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Editing by | Stuart Gilmore |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 5, 1944 |
| Running time | 99 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 comedy film about a girl named Trudy Kockenlocker who wakes up one morning after a wild night of partying with a group of soldiers to find herself mysteriously married—and pregnant. It stars Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Brian Donlevy (reprising his role as McGinty from The Great McGinty).
The movie was written and directed by Preston Sturges.
It was remade in 1958 with Jerry Lewis as Rock-A-Bye Baby.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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