It's happier than heaven!
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.
Cast: Don DeFore, Gale Storm [+]
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Writers: Everett Freeman, Vick Knight, Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
Producers: Roy Del Ruth
Cinematographer: Henry Sharp
Editors: Richard Heermance
Music: Edward Ward
Distribution: Allied Artists
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Aloysius: And I would like to feel that you’re all my friends. For to be without friends is a serious form of poverty.
Trudy: I can’t go back to him.
Jim: You’re married?
Trudy: It’s my father. He’s a drunkard, he’s lazy and he beats us.
Jim: Beats all fourteen of you?
Trudy: Every night.
Jim: Your old man’s not lazy.
Michael: You’ve taken on a little weight since I last saw you, in the wrong places.
Mary: It’s the clothes, and you’re no Van Johnson yourself. I can remember when you only had one chin.
Mary: What does your father think of him?
Trudy: Dad’s going to have him arrested.
Mary: Well, whatever for? Loving you?
Trudy: No, for trespassing.
Mary: Well, that’s the same thing, isn’t it? To your father.
Michael: You know, Mary…
Mary: Yes, Mike?
Michael: There are richer men than I.
Michael: Mary.
Mary: Yes, Mike?
Michael: Remind me to nail up the board in the back fence. He’s coming through the front door next winter.
- Frank Capra was initially attached to direct It Happened on 5th Avenue, but he opted to do It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) instead.
- The stew featured in this film is called Slumgullion Stew, which is similar to American Goulash, consisting of beef, pasta, and tomato sauce.
- “Lux Radio Theater” broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 19, 1947, with Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles, and Gale Storm reprising their film roles.
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