War effort

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

(1944)

Not sure when I've so enjoyed a film while wishing for different leads. How about Garland and Rooney instead of Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken as the mysteriously pregnant Trudy and her ever-faithful Norval? On the other hand, William Demarest and Diana Lynn are perfect as Trudy's blustering father and far-too-wise-and-cynical-for-fourteen sister. I was going to say that Lynn is about as convincing a fourteen-year-old as Veronica Lake was a boy in another Preston Sturges film, but according to IMDb, Lynn was in fact only seventeen when she made the film.