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Margaret O’Brien plays an isolated child genius who sneaks out of her Institute of Child Psychology home for adventures in a wonderland called New York City.
A little girl named Alpha (Margaret O’Brien) looks like a typical six-year-old. But to the professors at Pickering Institute of Child Psychology, she’s an experiment: an orphan raised in isolation to be a genius.
After breezy New York newsman Mike Regan (James Craig) interviews the prodigy and gets her thinking about life beyond ivy-clad walls, Alpha flees her lonely institutional “home” for adventure. The enterprising tot tracks Mike to a boxing match and soon gets involved with his job (covering a prison break), his love life (with a pretty nightclub nightingale) and – maybe – his future, if the irresponsible Mike ever realizes that what this lost angel needs is a great new dad.
A year after her breakthrough role in Journey for Margaret, O’Brien “acts with the authority of a pint-sized Garbo” (John Douglas Eames, The MGM Story) in a sweet, savvy comedy all about discovering that the world is a mighty magical place.
Original Release
12/23/1943
US Release
12/23/1943
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Margaret O'Brien | Alpha |
James Craig | Mike Regan |
Marsha Hunt | Katie Mallory |
Philip Merivale | Professor Peter Vincent |
Henry O'Neill | Professor Josh Pringle / Professor Joshua Pringle |
Donald Meek | Professor Catty |
Keenan Wynn | Packy Roost |
Alan Napier | Dr. Woodring |
Sara Haden | Rhoda Kitterick |
Kathleen Lockhart | Mrs. Catty |
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Margaret O'Brien | Alpha |
James Craig | Mike Regan |
Marsha Hunt | Katie Mallory |
Philip Merivale | Professor Peter Vincent |
Henry O'Neill | Professor Josh Pringle / Professor Joshua Pringle |
Donald Meek | Professor Catty |
Keenan Wynn | Packy Roost |
Alan Napier | Dr. Woodring |
Sara Haden | Rhoda Kitterick |
Kathleen Lockhart | Mrs. Catty |
Walter Fenner | Professor Endicott |
Howard Freeman | Professor Richards |
Elisabeth Risdon | Mrs. Pringle |
Robert Blake | Jerry |
Eddie Acuff | Policeman |
Hooper Atchley | Pepi |
Barbara Bedford | Telephone Operator |
William Bishop | Reporter |
Charles D. Brown | Ed |
Naomi Childers | Matron |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Robert Sisk | Producer |