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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Movie
1947
1h 56m
NR
English
Comedy, Music, Romance
User Score: 
7.5
Critic Score: 
72
It Happened on Fifth Avenue' Poster
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.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue Poster

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

NR
Movie
1947
1h 56m
English
Comedy, Music, Romance
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.
Rating
WATCHMODE
7.5
IMDB
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
72

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Don DeFore
Jim Bullock
Ann Harding
Mary O'Connor
Charles Ruggles
Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
Victor Moore
Aloysius T. McKeever
Gale Storm
Trudy O'Connor
Edward Brophy
Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton
Alan Hale Jr
Whitey Temple
Dorothea Kent
Margie Temple
Charles Lane
Landlord (uncredited)
Arthur Hohl
Brady - Gates Patrolman (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)
Eddie Marr
Tour Guide on Bus (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Head Moving Man (uncredited)
Johnny Arthur
Apartment Manager (uncredited)
Jean Andren
Secretary (uncredited)
Florence Auer
Miss Parker (uncredited)
Leon Belasco
Musician (uncredited)
George Blagoi
Executive (uncredited)
Directed By: Roy Del Ruth
Written By: Frederick Stephani (Story), Everett Freeman (Screenplay), + 1 more

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TKPNPodcast says...
6 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...
3 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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John Chard
5 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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