Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. WITH: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges. Eddie Bracken, the sweet, owl-faced comic actor of film, TV and the stage, best known for the movies 'Hail the Conquering Hero' and 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,' died Nov. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death, Real name. Due to the popularity of these films, Eddie Bracken was a household name during World War II. During the 1940s, director Preston Sturges cast Bracken in two of his best-loved films, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, opposite Betty Hutton, and Hail the Conquering Hero. Marine hero, a group of saloon-hopping World War II-era U.S. Remembering actor EDDIE BRACKEN (1915 2002), who was born on February 7th. WITH: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. Solely on the basis of his fathers reputation as a World War I U.S. The Palm Beach Story DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges. Edward Vincent Bracken (Febru November 14, 2002) was an American actor. Sturges was nominated for his Original Screenplay (competing in the category against his own Hail the Conquering Hero, which also starred Bracken). When her childhood friend Norval Jones (Sturges’s favorite small-town schnook Eddie Bracken) tries to help her out of her predicament, the complications only increase and Trudy unexpectedly falls for her old pal. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek In Sturges’s most censor-defying farce, Betty Hutton is Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town policeman’s daughter who attends a farewell dance for WWII soldiers only to later find that she’s become the bride of the now-missing Private Ratzkiwatzki. From its frenetic main title sequence to its jaw-dropping finale, The Palm Beach Story is Sturges at his most inventive, unpredictable, and inimitable. Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea are the loving but financially struggling couple who find themselves tempted by new partners Rudy Vallee is the millionaire who woos Colbert and Mary Astor is Vallee’s divorced sister who sets her sights on McCrea. The Palm Beach Story The archetypal romantic comedy storyline about a divorcing couple who find themselves falling for their mates all over again gets turned upside down and given a good shaking in one of Preston Sturges’s most uproarious farces.
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