Cast
- Eddie Bracken as Norval Jones
- Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker
- Diana Lynn as Emmy Kockenlocker
- William Demarest as Constable Kockenlocker
- Porter Hall as Justice of the Peace
- Emory Parnell as Mr. Tuerck
- Al Bridge as Mr. Johnson
- Julius Tannen as Mr. Rafferty
- Victor Potel as Newspaper editor
- Brian Donlevy as Gov. McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Bobby Watson as Adolf Hitler (uncredited)
Cast notes:
- Both Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff reprised their roles from Sturges' 1940 comedy The Great McGinty.
- This was the first time Preston Sturges and Eddie Bracken worked together on a feature film, although Bracken had appeared in Safeguarding Military Information, a 1942 propaganda short that Sturges wrote. Bracken would go on to appear in Sturges' next film, Hail the Conquering Hero.
- 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. Paramount wanted Sturges to stop using the same actors over and over again, but he felt that "these little players who had contributed so much to my first hits had a moral right to work in my subsequent pictures."
- Porter Hall had appeared in Sturges' Sullivan's Travels and had filmed The Great Moment earlier in the year, although it would not be released until after Miracle. He would also appear in The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges' last American film.
- This was the eighth of ten films written by Preston Sturges that William Demarest appeared in. 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)
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