The Girl Next Door (1953 film)
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Director Richard Sale Initial DVD release November 13, 2007 Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Musical Costume design William Travilla Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 13 May 1953 Writer Isobel Lennart (screenplay), Leslie Bush-Fekete (story), Mary Helen Fay (story) Cast Dan Dailey (Bill Carter), June Haver (Jeannie Laird), Dennis Day (Reed Appleton), Billy Gray (Joe Carter), Cara Williams (Rosie Green), Natalie Schafer (Evelyn the maid)Similar movies Election , The Great Beauty , The Wolf of Wall Street , RoboCop , Let's Be Cops , Lucy Tagline Something new under the Musical Sun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Entertainer Jeannie Laird (June Haver) throws herself a housewarming party and invites her show business friends. But when smoke from a neighboring apartment disrupts their festivities, Jeannie storms over to share a piece of her mind. Instead of a villain, however, she finds handsome widower Bill Carter (Dan Dailey) and his son, Joe (Billy Gray) and her anger quickly turns to attraction. Unfortunately, the sons preoccupation with his mothers death impedes the adults attempts at romance.
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The Girl Next Door is a 1953 musical comedy film directed by Richard Sale, released by 20th Century Fox, and starring June Haver, Dan Dailey, and Dennis Day.
The Girl Next Door was June Havers last film appearance. Haver had gained fame in the mid-to-late 1940s as a musical star for Fox; she starred in films like, Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Where Do We Go from Here?, I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now, Look for the Silver Lining, and Ill Get By. Haver departed from films to join a convent in 1952, but left the convent six months later and married actor Fred MacMurray.
When released, The Girl Next Door drew mixed press reviews; it did moderately well at the box-office.
Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.
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A popular performer, Jeannie Laird decides to buy her first house and celebrate with a big party. The guests enjoyment is interfered with by the happenings at the home of the next door neighbor, Bill Carter.
Carter is a comic-strip artist. He prides himself on every story he tells being true to life, including that of 10-year-old son Joey, whom he is raising alone. But when a relationship blossoms between Bill and Jeannie after a shaky start, a neglected Joey ends up blabbing to Bills bosses that the comic strips adventures have become far more fiction than fact.
Similar Movies
June Haver and others appear in The Girl Next Door and Ill Get By. June Haver appears in The Girl Next Door and Three Little Girls in Blue. June Haver appears in The Girl Next Door and I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now. An American in Paris (1951). Artists and Models (1955).
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