{"id":9255,"date":"2014-08-29T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:09:36","slug":"the-miracle-of-morgans-creek-1944-preston-sturges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9255","title":{"rendered":"The Miracle of Morgan&#8217;s Creek (1944, Preston Sturges)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect comedy.  Unfortunately Sturges was double-nominated for writing this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5784\">Hail The Conquering Hero<\/a><\/em>, splitting his own vote and some damned Woodrow Wilson bio-pic got the oscar.  Been too long since I saw <em>The Great McGinty<\/em> so I didn&#8217;t realize Governor McGinty (in the framing-device phone-call) and the other guy in his office were from that movie, just thought the name was being reused.<\/p>\n<p>Betty and Eddie had played together in musical <em>The Fleet&#8217;s In<\/em> two years earlier, and she&#8217;d play the title role in sharpshootin&#8217; musical <em>Annie Get Your Gun<\/em>, which we should probably watch.  Trudy&#8217;s 14-year-old little sister is wonderfully played by 18-year-old Diana Lynn, later in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/438\">Track of the Cat<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was gonna write up a plot summary, but&#8230; THE SPOTS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect comedy. Unfortunately Sturges was double-nominated for writing this and Hail The Conquering Hero, splitting his own vote and some damned Woodrow Wilson bio-pic got the oscar. Been too long since I saw The Great McGinty so I didn&#8217;t realize Governor McGinty (in the framing-device phone-call) and the other guy in his office were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1827,1826,228,472],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-betty-hutton","tag-eddie-bracken","tag-preston-sturges","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}