Editing The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (section)

===Screenplay===
Sturges developed the idea for ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' in the late-1930s: The original story revolved around his heroine, Trudy Kockenlocker, a woman who becomes pregnant by a wealthy banker's son who refuses to marry her, leading her to being cared for by a [[hermit]] before she gives birth to [[sextuplets]].{{sfn|Jacobs|1992|p=294}} The story eventually was reshaped into something "far less sentimental", featuring the character of Trudy becoming pregnant by a soldier, with the character of Norval, her friend, pursuing her.{{sfn|Jacobs|1992|pages=294–295}}

Describing the screenplay, Sturges biographer Diane Jacobs notes that the film features small-town characters who "are as diverse and scrappy as city folk. And though perpetually thrown together, they certainly do not blend. Nor do they easily inhabit their landscape."{{sfn|Jacobs|1992|p=296}} Unlike Sturges's previous screenplays, ''[[Easy Living (1937 film)|Easy Living]]'' (1937) and ''[[The Lady Eve]]'' (1941), which blend elements of [[farce]] and comedy, Jacobs notes that ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' instead combines farce and melodrama, "maximizing the pain and violence inherent in both forms."{{sfn|Jacobs|1992|p=296}}