The Luck of the Irish

Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.

Cast

Tyrone Power

as Stephen Fitzgerald

Anne Baxter

as Nora

Cecil Kellaway

as Horace (A Leprechaun)

Lee J. Cobb

as David C. Augur

James Todd

as Bill Clark

Jayne Meadows

as Frances Augur

J.M. Kerrigan

as Tatie the Innkeeper

Phil Brown

as Tom Higginbotham

Charles Irwin

as Cornelius

Helen Dietrich

as Piano player

Reviews

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"Fitzgerald" (Tyrone Power) returns to New York after a trip to his ancestral homeland of Ireland to pick up his successful job working for the "DC Augur" (Lee J. Cobb) political machine. What he didn't count on was that returning also from his trip was a young girl he met - "Nora" (Anne Baxter) and...

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