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''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall. Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff reprise their roles from Sturges' 1940 film ''The Great McGinty''. ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'', which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and in 2001 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film ranks #54 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list of the top 100 funniest films in movie history. The 1958 film ''Rock-A-Bye Baby'', starring Jerry Lewis, was loosely based on ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek''. Preston Sturges received a credit for that film, but did not actually participate in the project. This is one of the few sound films before 1950 of Paramount that do not belong to EMKA, along with ''Sorry, Wrong Number'' and ''The Buccaneer''. ==Plot== Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) is a small-town girl with a soft spot for soldiers. She wakes up one morning after a wild farewell party for a group of them to find that while drunk the night before, she married a soldier whose name she can't remember, except that "it had a ''z'' in it. Like Ratzkiwatzki () or was it Zitzkiwitzki?" She believes they both used fake names and she doesn't know how to get in touch with him or even what he looks like. The matter is complicated when she learns that she became pregnant that night as well. Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), a local 4-F boy who has been in love with Trudy for years, steps in to help out, but Trudy's over-protective father (William Demarest), a policeman, gets involved and complicates matters. Before long, Norval is arrested on 19 different charges, and then he finds himself on the run as an escaped prisoner. All seems lost until Trudy gives birth to sextuplets. At that point Governor McGinty (Brian Donlevy) and The Boss (Akim Tamiroff) step in and provide a phone call which results in a happy ending for everyone.〔Meek, James (Plot summary (IMDb) )〕〔Erickson, Hal (Plot synopsis (Allmovie) )〕〔TCM (Full synopsis )〕 When Norval discovers that Trudy has borne not just one son but six, he faints, and the movie ends with this epilogue on a title card: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Miracle of Morgan's Creek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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