This is the Christmas classic from 1947 that time forgot. Yes, It's A Wonderful Life and A Bishop's Wife both came from about the same time, but this movie shouldn't be overlooked just because those films are classics and this is merely, darn good.
Victor Moore steals the flick from Don DeFore and Charles Ruggles as a homeless man that stays the Christmas season in a wealthy man's temporarily empty mansion. Sentimental but fun and has one of the best final lines in movie history. 8/10
Shout by Dann MichalskiBlockedParent2021-12-16T17:00:08Z— updated 2021-12-17T23:30:01Z
A classic holiday film, It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a charming romantic comedy. When a young woman runs away from school and finds a pair of drifters squatting in her family’s Fifth Avenue mansion she decides to play along, passing herself off as a fellow squatter looking for shelter, and ends up falling in love. Gale Storm and Don DeFore give strong performances, have magnetic screen presence, and good chemistry together. And the rest of the cast is pretty good too. Also, the writers do an impressive job at developing the characters and setting up the comic situations that they get themselves into. The humor can get a little overly cartoonist at times, but overall most of the jokes work. It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a fun and quirky film that the whole family can enjoy.