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"On Our Merry Way" -Stewart, Fonda & MacMurray

This was a real curio of a movie... James "Slim" Stewart and Henry Fonda were long time friends and roommates in NYC in their halcyon Broadway stage days, and here they are together in 1948 in a nearly forgotten little comedy called "On Our Merry Way", an episodic comedy tied together with Burgess Meredith's character playing a reporter doing a story about Children. In this scene Hank and Jimmy are musicians traveling with a ragtag band in a beat up old bus. Down on their luck they happen on an aspiring horn player (Played here by Carl "alfalfa" Switzer, who had a tiny role 2 years earlier with Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life" as a Mischeivous high school kid who opens up the dance floor to drop the dancing kids into the swimming pool~!) Here, Carl plays a young "Hepcat" who dreams of a life traveling with such a band. Dig his way-out rendition of "You must have been a beautiful Baby" as he plays along with the great Harry James. "Beat me, Daddy!" Stewart and Fonda are way too "unhep" to be real Jazz bohos, and it's still too early in 1948 to give much creedence to the new Jazz phenomenon called BeBop. They play a safe, watered down form of Swing. Yet, it is still a pleasure to see these real life pals onscreen together (in spite of their growing postwar political differences) at the young ages of 40 and 43. James Stewart would never seem this young again. Here's another segment of the 1948 film that shows Fred MacMurray in an early comedic role along side his future TV costar in "My Three Sons", William Demarest, who would play Uncle Charlie 12 years later for the duration of the show (after a season with William Frawley, of course). Fred started out as a leading man only to discover he had a gift for light comedy. Look at his adroit handling of these magic tricks. Although MacMurray and Fonda starred together in their earliest roles, the Technicolor film, "trail of the Lonesome Pine", it's too bad Fred and his real life friend James Stewart weren't in any scenes together in this one. Their's might have been a cinematic teaming that could have really thrived! -Enjoy this rare bit of 20th century Americana