It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
- Date of release
- 1953-04-22
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Joseph Pevney
Casting
- Loretta Young — Jane MacAvoy
- John Forsythe — Bob MacAvoy
- Frank McHugh — Fred Hawley
- Edgar Buchanan — Jake
- Gregg Palmer — Chet Dunne
- Harvey Grant — Steve MacAvoy
- Jane Darwell — Mrs. Spatch
- Willard Waterman — Myron Trout
- Jimmy Conlin — Matthew
- Regis Toomey — Mayor Hull
- Gladys George — Mrs. Holmes
- Kathryn Card — Mrs. Dow
Interesting facts
It Happens Every Thursday is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Loretta Young, John Forsythe, and Frank McHugh, loosely based on the 1951 autobiographical book of the same title by Jane S. McIlvaine. It was Loretta Young's final theater-released film; she switched to television work after this movie. The film cost $617,085 to make, with Young receiving $75,000 for her appearance. After It Happens Every Thursday, Young took a 33-year hiatus from film work of any kind until 1986 when she starred in the TV movie Christmas Eve directed by Stuart Cooper.
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