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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like It Happened on Fifth Avenue, this is a warm, urbane holiday comedy built around a grand home, social pretence and an unlikely household becoming a source of genuine belonging.
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Why this pick
Its crowded-home premise turns a housing shortage into buoyant romantic chaos, with the same generous wartime spirit and pleasure in strangers improvising a family together.
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Why this pick
A fugitive's accidental refuge in a respectable household develops into a witty, humane comedy about class, conscience and unexpected companionship, in a similarly polished studio-era style.
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Why this pick
Released the same year, this nimble Cary Grant comedy shares the original's light touch with household disruption, romantic misunderstandings and affection that softens its social mismatches.
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Why this pick
A seemingly improper lodger upends a suburban family's routines in this dry, cozy comedy, echoing the pleasure of a stranger transforming a home into a more open-hearted place.
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01 / THE STORY
Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a New York City hobo, makes his winter home in a seasonally boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansion, entering and exiting the property through a loose board in the back fence, while its owner—multi-millionaire Michael J. O'Connor (Charles Ruggles)—winters in the South. McKeever winds up taking in homeless ex-GI (military) Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), who has been evicted from an apartment building O'Connor is tearing down for a new skyscraper, and runaway 18-year-old Trudy "Smith" (Gale Storm), who is actually O'Connor's daughter. Jim soon invites war buddies Whitey (Alan Hale, Jr.), Hank (Edward Ryan) and their families to share the vast mansion while they seek permanent homes of their own.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jim Bullock
Aloysius T. McKeever
Harper
Jackie Temple
Mary O'Connor
Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
Trudy O'Connor
Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton
