![]() Monogram Pictures was trying to shed its reputation for low-budget films by setting up a new division, Allied Artists Productions (renamed Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in 1953, replacing Monogram entirely). Abe Reynolds as Finkelhoff the Tailor (uncredited).Arthur Hohl as Patrolman Brady (uncredited).Edward Brophy as Patrolman Cecil Felton.Mike tells Mary to remind him to nail up the board in the back fence through which McKeever gets onto his property, intending to have McKeever come through the front door next winter. Mike, Mary, Trudy, and Jim bid farewell to McKeever as he heads off to do his annual squat at O'Connor's estate in Virginia, still unaware of the truth. That night, everyone shares a New Year's dinner before restoring the house just as they found it. At the meeting, Mike reveals his true identity and transfers ownership of the camp to them, provided that they not reveal his identity to McKeever. Ashamed, "Mike" arranges a meeting with O'Connor for Jim and his partners, who are dubious but accept. When Mary and Trudy find out how Mike has manipulated the situation, Mary tells him that he has not changed after all, and that she and Trudy will leave for Florida. Jim then sadly reveals that the camp has been sold to O'Connor, and that he is considering the job offer in Bolivia, resulting in Trudy breaking up with him. To try to get rid of Jim, his daughter's suitor, O'Connor sees to it that the construction company Jim approaches about his conversion plan rejects it and instead offers him a well-paying job in Bolivia, on the condition that he be single.Ĭelebrating Christmas Eve together, the residents are caught by two patrolmen, but McKeever convinces them to let the families stay until after the New Year. O'Connor also wants the property, and a bidding war ensues before O'Connor finds out who his competitor is. Jim and his friends raise money from hundreds of other ex-G.I.'s in the same predicament. Mary accepts.Įarlier, McKeever had given Jim, Whitey, and Hank an idea to convert unused post-war Army barracks into much-needed housing, and persuaded Jim and the others to bid for an Army camp on the outskirts of New York City. Eventually, Mike tells Mary he is a changed man and proposes. McKeever, sensing Mary and Mike have feelings for each other, nudges them together. Mary comes to New York and pretends to be another homeless person to join the other squatters. Trudy calls Palm Beach to seek help from her mother Mary ( Ann Harding), who is recently divorced from Michael. When Mike becomes fed up, he gives Trudy 24-hours to get the squatters out. McKeever reluctantly takes Mike in, but treats him like a servant. She persuades her father to pretend to be a homeless man named "Mike". She has not told Jim who she really is because she wants to win his love without her wealth. When Trudy encounters her father, she tells him she is in love with Jim. Jim soon invites war buddies Whitey ( Alan Hale, Jr.), Hank (Edward Ryan) and their families to share the vast mansion when they are unable to find homes of their own. ![]() Jim Bullock ( Don DeFore), who has been evicted from an apartment building O'Connor is tearing down for a new skyscraper, and later 18-year-old Trudy "Smith" ( Gale Storm), who is actually O'Connor's runaway daughter. O'Connor ( Charles Ruggles), the second richest man in the world-winters at his Virginia estate. McKeever ( Victor Moore), a hobo, makes his home in a seasonally boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansion, each time its owner-Michael J. Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, losing to Valentine Davies for another Christmas-themed story, Miracle on 34th Street.Īloysius T. It Happened on 5th Avenue is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Victor Moore, Ann Harding, Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles and Gale Storm.
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