It Happened on Fifth Avenue

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.

Cast

Don DeFore

as Jim Bullock

Ann Harding

as Mary O'Connor

Charles Ruggles

as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor

Victor Moore

as Aloysius T. McKeever

Gale Storm

as Trudy O'Connor

Grant Mitchell

as Al Farrow

Edward Brophy

as Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton

Alan Hale Jr.

as Whitey Temple

Dorothea Kent

as Margie Temple

Edward Ryan

as Hank

Reviews

John Chard

Remind me to nail up the board in the back fence... It Happened on Fifth Avenue is directed by Roy Del Ruth and the screenplay adapted by Everett Freeman & Vick Knight from a story by Herbert Clyde Lewis & Frederick Stephani. It stars Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale S...

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