{"id":12930,"date":"2019-01-21T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2019-01-18T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:39:32","slug":"it-happened-on-5th-avenue-1947-roy-del-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12930","title":{"rendered":"It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947, Roy Del Ruth)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy found us a new Christmas movie.  Aloysius McKeever (Victor Moore, star of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5801\">Make Way for Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>) is a squatter who lives in mega-rich Michael O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s summer house during the winter (and his winter house in the summer).  He starts inviting other unfortunates to stay with him during a post-war housing shortage, leading to a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8757\">More The Merrier<\/a><\/em> situation where roommates Jim (Iowan Don DeFore, who somehow played a German later in a Douglas Sirk movie) and Trudy (Gale Storm of some Joseph Kane westerns) fall in love.  Jim is blandly unmemorable, so fortunately there&#8217;s more going on &#8211; Trudy is the homeowner&#8217;s daughter pretending to be down on her luck, and she invites both divorced parents (Lubitsch actor Charles Ruggles and Ann Harding of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/399\">Double Harness<\/a><\/em>) to play along &#8211; I forget why they go along with it, but Ruggles eventually reveals himself to Jim, donating land to his housing-crisis alleviation project, after all the family togetherness somewhat unscrooges him.  They never clue in McKeever, who heads merrily to another mansion in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy found us a new Christmas movie. Aloysius McKeever (Victor Moore, star of Make Way for Tomorrow) is a squatter who lives in mega-rich Michael O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s summer house during the winter (and his winter house in the summer). He starts inviting other unfortunates to stay with him during a post-war housing shortage, leading to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,155,2522],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-christmas","tag-roy-del-ruth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}