Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
as Martha Pease
as Oliver M. Pease
as Slim
as Lank Solsky
as Harry James
as Gloria Manners
as Ashton Carrington
as Al
as Floyd
as Eli Hobbs
as Mr. Sadd
as Maxim
as Cynthia Robbs
as Lola Maxim
as Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz
as Peggy Thorndyke
as Bookie
as Edgar Hobbs - aka Sniffles Dugan
as Dying Man (deleted sequence) (uncredited)
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
as Reverend
