* Several feature films ended up in Republic's possession ( as stated above ), yet others had been retained by Paramount due to other rights issues ( such as The Buccaneer and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – it is presumed these remained under Paramount ownership so that remakes could be filmed for release in 1958, without having to license the rights ).

Eric Blore had appeared in The Lady Eve and Porter Hall would go on to appear in three other Sturges films: The Great Moment, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges's last American film.

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.

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 1958 film Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis, was loosely based on The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

* Many members of Sturges ' unofficial " stock company " of character actors appear in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, among them Al Bridge, Georgia Caine, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Melford, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Max Wagner.

Demarest also acted in Diamond Jim ( 1935 ), Easy Living ( 1937 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), Christmas in July ( 1940 ), The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), Sullivan's Travels ( 1941 ), The Palm Beach Story ( 1942 ), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ), Hail the Conquering Hero ( 1944 ) and The Great Moment ( 1944 )

Although shot in 1942 and early 1943, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek was withheld from distribution until early 1944, because Paramount had too much product on hand, including Preston Sturges ' The Great Moment.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek received praise from the critics.

Preston Sturges was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the same year that he was also nominated for the same award for Hail the Conquering Hero.

In 2001, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

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In 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.

* The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 )

References to the quintuplets appear in the Three Stooges ' shorts False Alarms ( 1936 ), and Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise ( 1939 ), the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey ( 1936 ), Preston Sturges ' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ), and Agatha Christie's The Adventure of the Cheap Flat.

He also received two screenwriting Academy Award nominations in the same year, for 1944's Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

Though he had a thirty-year Hollywood career, Sturges ' greatest comedies were filmed in a furious five-year burst of activity from 1939 to 1943, during which he turned out The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero.

Half a century later, four of these – The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – were chosen by the American Film Institute as being among the 100 funniest American films.

Sturges won the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay for The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), and was subsequently nominated twice in the same year, for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero, both in 1945.

* Both Donlevy and Tamiroff reprised their roles in Sturges ' 1944 comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

The following year, he played the role for which he is perhaps best remembered, that of McGinty in The Great McGinty, a role he reprised four years later in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

* The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 )

* The 1999 Jonathan Creek episode Miracle On Crooked Lane features WAM as a major subplot.

# The Making of Miracle at Sage Creek ( 2005 ) ( voice ) ( post-production )

Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).

Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

The Monastery of the Miracle ( Chudov Monastery ) in the Moscow Kremlin, where the Russian Tsars were baptized, was dedicated to the Feast of the Miracle at Kona.

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

In 1762 Russia, France and Austria were on the verge of crushing Prussia, when the Anglo-Prussian Alliance was saved by the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.

In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues.

His contract was not renewed and he soon published an article entitled “ End of the Miracle of Howard Beach .” This was Kahane ’ s first article in the Jewish Press, American-Jewish weekly, for which he continued to write until his murder in 1990.

One of the low points during this period was the play known as the " Miracle at the Meadowlands ", which occurred in 1978.

A stone cover was placed over the burial place with two holes where pilgrims could insert their heads and kiss the tomb ; this arrangement is illustrated in the ' Miracle Windows ' of the Trinity Chapel.

Halévy, who had written the text for Bizet's student opera Le docteur Miracle ( 1856 ), was a cousin of Bizet's wife, Geneviève ; he and Meilhac had a solid reputation as the librettists of many of Jacques Offenbach's operettas.

The Miracle of the Holy Fire ( 1899 ) was intended as a picturesque satire on the local Eastern Christians, of whom, like most English visitors, Hunt took a very dim view.

In the " Miracle at Niagara ", Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old American boy, was swept over the Horseshoe Falls protected only by a life vest on July 9, 1960, as two tourists pulled his 17-year-old sister Deanne from the river only 20 feet ( 6 m ) from the lip of the Horseshoe Falls at Goat Island.

The rapid German recovery after the Second World War was sometimes called the German Miracle.

He played a Bible-reading pastor in the multi-story A Miracle Can Happen ( 1947 ), but his piece wound up being cut and replaced with another featuring Dorothy Lamour, and in this form the film was retitled as On Our Merry Way.

However, an original print of A Miracle Can Happen was sent abroad for dubbing before the Laughton sequence was deleted, and in this form it was shown in Spain as Una Encuesta Llamada Milagro.

Herb Brooks, who coached the 1980 " Miracle on Ice " team, was brought in for the 1992 – 93 season, but when the team yet again was eliminated in the first round, he was fired and replaced with former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Lemaire.

Newsdays front page the day following the win was a picture of Healy with a headline reading, " It's a Miracle!

The challenge was to set the one-act libretto of Le docteur Miracle by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy.