

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
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.
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- Language
- English
- new york city
- homeless person
- holiday
- new year's day
- mansion
- millionaire
- bum
- assumed identity
- manhattan, new york city
- homeless man
- squatting
- christmas
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United StatesUS
- PremiereMiami, Florida5 Apr 1947
- Theatrical (limited)NRSan Antonio, Texas17 Apr 1947
- TheatricalNR19 Apr 1947
MexicoMX
- TheatricalC17 Apr 1947
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue was released on 17 April 1947.
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1- J8/10
John Chard
12/28/2019
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 Storm, Grant Mitchell and Alan Hale Jr. Aloysious T. McKeever (Moore) is a hobo gentleman who squats in empty mansions…
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