THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1944) w discussion FREE June 3, 2007

Free
No tickets or reservations required.



Written and directed by Preston Sturges
Running time: 99 minutes

At a time when most Hollywood films revered the home front, this film takes a not so gentle poke at the sacred institution of American motherhood. Trudi Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a small town girl with a yen for soldiers, marries one after a wild night and can't remember his name (she thinks it's something like Private Ratski-watski). When she finds herself pregant, she enlists the help of a friend and sometime flame (Eddie Bracken), who shares the credit when Trudi gives birth to America's secret weapon in the war against Fascism.

Panel discussion will follow.

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