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?
Paulette Goddard
Burgess Meredith
James Stewart
Henry Fonda
Harry James
Dorothy Lamour
Victor Moore
Fred MacMurray
William Demarest
Hugh Herbert
Charles D. Brown
Eduardo Ciannelli
Betty Caldwell
Dorothy Ford
Carl Switzer
Eilene Janssen
Frank Moran
David Whorf
Henry Hull
Chester Clute
Charles Laughton