ORIGINAL TITLEIt Happened on Fifth Avenue
GENREComedy · Romance · Holiday
ABOUT THIS FILM
RUNTIME
115 min
FAMOUS QUOTE
“For to be without friends is a serious form of poverty.”
Vibe
New-YorkmansionGolden-Agegenerousromanticclass-comedycozyensemblewinteruplifting
A resourceful homeless man secretly lives each winter in a millionaire's empty Fifth Avenue mansion and invites others in need, eventually drawing the owner's daughter and the disguised owner into the improvised household. Christmas generosity mixed with postwar housing insecurity, class comedy and family estrangement; mansion becomes temporary commons.
MOVIE NIGHT RANK
#73 of 100
Watch for
- Victor Moore as moral center
- mansion as wealth and shelter
- owner experiencing home from another class position
- romance plus housing concerns
Production notes
TCM lists Del Ruth as director/producer, Victor Moore/Don DeFore/Gale Storm/Ann Harding/Charles Ruggles and about 115 minutes.
Trivia
- Del Ruth directed/produced
- TCM lists about 115 minutes
- Victor Moore stars
- set in New York at Christmas
- released 1947
Legacy
strong second life through television and TCM holiday programming; socially interesting Golden Age discovery beyond the best-known 1940s classics.