It Happened on 5th Avenue
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Produced by |
Roy Del Ruth Joe Kaufmann (associate) |
| Written by | Story: Frederick Stephani Herbert Clyde Lewis |
| Screenplay by | Everett Freeman Vick Knight Ben Markson |
| Starring |
Don DeFore Ann Harding Charles Ruggles Victor Moore Gale Storm |
| Music by | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Henry Sharp |
| Edited by | Richard V. Heermance |
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Roy Del Ruth Productions
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.2 million or $1.3 million |
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) is a motion picture comedy, directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Victor Moore, Ann Harding, Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles and Gale Storm. The film received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Story. This film has been remade in Hindi twice in India: Pugree (1948) and Dil Daulat Duniya (1972).
Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a New York City hobo, makes his home in a boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansion, entering and exiting through a secluded utility manhole, while its owner, multi-millionaire ("the second richest man in the world") Michael J. O'Connor (Charles Ruggles), winters in the South. McKeever winds up taking in homeless ex-G.I. Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), who has been evicted from an apartment building O'Connor is tearing down for a new skyscraper, and runaway 18-year-old Trudy "Smith" (Gale Storm) who is actually O'Connor's daughter. Soon Jim invites war buddies Whitey (Alan Hale, Jr.), Hank (Edward Ryan) and their families to share the vast mansion while they seek permanent homes of their own.
Trudy falls in love with Jim, and when her father demands to meet him, convinces O'Connor to also take up residence, pretending to be the panhandler "Mike". She wants to win Jim's love without the temptation of her wealth. McKeever "allows" Mike to move in, but treats him as a servant. When Mike warns Trudy that he intends to have them all arrested for criminal trespass, she persuades her mother Mary (Ann Harding) to fly up from Florida and pretend to be the 11th interloper, a cook. Determined to derail the budding romance, Mike has one of his construction companies offer Jim a great job in Bolivia, but Jim turns it down to pursue his dream.
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