It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

It's 1947's Richest Comedy!

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.

Date of release
1947-04-17
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (90)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Music
Director
Roy Del Ruth

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

It Happened on 5th Avenue is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore and Gale Storm. The film follows a clever vagrant as he helps several strangers take shelter in a vacant New York City mansion during the Christmas holidays, unwittingly inviting the mansion's owner and his family to stay with them.

Production

Monogram Pictures was trying to shed its reputation for low-budget films by establishing a new division, Allied Artists Productions (renamed Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in 1953, replacing Monogram entirely), and the film was Allied Artists' first production. At a time when the average Hollywood film cost about $800,000 (and the average Monogram picture cost about $90,000), It Happened on 5th Avenue cost more than $1,200,000.

The story was originally optioned by Liberty Films in 1945 for director Frank Capra (who instead directed It's a Wonderful Life), and later that year, producer-director Roy Del Ruth acquired the story.

The casting of Ann Harding and Victor Moore was announced in June 1946 and that of Don DeFore and Gale Storm in July. Filming was conducted from August 5 to mid-October 1946. Despite the film's Christmas theme, its release was delayed until Easter 1947.

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