Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
- Date of release
- 1948-09-30
- TMDB
- 8.2 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- George Seaton
Casting
- Jeanne Crain — Peggy Taylor
- William Holden — Jason Taylor
- Edmund Gwenn — Prof. Henry C. Barnes
- Gene Lockhart — Prof. Edward Bell
- Griff Barnett — Dr. Philip Conway
- Randy Stuart — Dorothy
- Betty Lynn — Wife
- Marion Marshall — Ruth
- Pati Behrs — Jeanne
- Charles Lane — Prof. Collins (uncredited)
- Gene Nelson — Jerry (uncredited)
- Ray Walker — Carson (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Apartment for Peggy is a 1948 American comedy-drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Jeanne Crain, William Holden, and Edmund Gwenn. The plot is about a depressed professor whose spirits are lifted when he rents part of his home to a young couple. It was based on the novelette An Apartment for Jenny by Faith Baldwin. Campus exteriors were filmed at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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