GOLDEN AGE

Once Upon a Time (1944)

19441h 28mdir. Alexander HallUnited Statescomedy film

With Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, William Demarest, Howard Freeman, Art Baker, Paul Stanton

Directed by Alexander Hall

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Once Upon a Time is a 1944 American comedy fantasy film involving a dancing caterpillar who lives in a small box. Cary Grant plays a conniving showman who desperately needs money to save his theater. The film was based on a 1940 radio play called "My Client Curley", adapted by Norman Corwin from a magazine story by Lucille Fletcher.

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