It Happens Every Thursday

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.

Cast

Loretta Young

as Jane MacAvoy

John Forsythe

as Bob MacAvoy

Frank McHugh

as Fred Hawley

Edgar Buchanan

as Jake

Gregg Palmer

as Chet Dunne

Harvey Grant

as Steve MacAvoy

Jane Darwell

as Mrs. Spatch

Willard Waterman

as Myron Trout

Jimmy Conlin

as Matthew

Regis Toomey

as Mayor Hull

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