It Happened on Fifth Avenue

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1947

1h 56m

English

Comedy, Music, Romance

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A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

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1947

1h 56m

English

Comedy, Music, Romance

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A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

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Cast

Jim Bullock

Mary O'Connor

Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor

Aloysius T. McKeever

Trudy O'Connor

Al Farrow

Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton

Whitey Temple

Margie Temple

Hank

Alice

Landlord (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Policeman in Park (uncredited)

James Flavin

First Policeman (uncredited)

John Hamilton

Harper (uncredited)

Chester Clute

Phillips (uncredited)

Anthony Sydes

Jackie Temple (uncredited)

Johnny Arthur

Apartment Manager (uncredited)

Jean Andren

Secretary (uncredited)

Florence Auer

Miss Parker (uncredited)

Leon Belasco

Musician (uncredited)

George Blagoi

Executive (uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Man Tossing Pudding (uncredited)

John Breen

Man Tossing Pudding (uncredited)

James Cardwell

Young Man (uncredited)

Directed By: Roy Del Ruth

Written By: Frederick Stephani (Story), Everett Freeman (Screenplay), + 1 more

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TKPNPodcast says...

5 years ago

This is the Christmas classic from 1947 that time forgot. Yes, _It's A Wonderful Life_ and _A Bishop's Wife_ both came from about the same time, but this movie shouldn't be overlooked just because those films are classics and this is merely, darn good. Victor Moore steals the flick from Don DeFore and Charles Ruggles as a homeless man that stays the Christmas season in a wealthy man's temporarily empty mansion. Sentimental but fun and has one of the best final lines in movie history. 8/10

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jarvis-8243417 says...

2 years ago

A classic holiday film, It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a charming romantic comedy. When a young woman runs away from school and finds a pair of drifters squatting in her family’s Fifth Avenue mansion she decides to play along, passing herself off as a fellow squatter looking for shelter, and ends up falling in love. Gale Storm and Don DeFore give strong performances, have magnetic screen presence, and good chemistry together. And the rest of the cast is pretty good too. Also, the writers do an impressive job at developing the characters and setting up the comic situations that they get themselves into. The humor can get a little overly cartoonist at times, but overall most of the jokes work. It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a fun and quirky film that the whole family can enjoy.

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4 years ago

Remind me to nail up the board in the back fence...

It Happened on Fifth Avenue is directed by Roy Del Ruth and the screenplay adapted by Everett Freeman & Vick Knight from a story by Herbert Clyde Lewis & Frederick Stephani. It stars Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale S More

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