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It Happened on 5th Avenue was Allied Artists' first production. At a time when the average Hollywood picture cost about $800,000 (and the average Monogram picture cost about $90,000), the Christmas-themed comedy cost more than $1,200,000. [1] It was rewarded with an estimated $1.8 million box office return. [3]
He was also a writer and director, but is best remembered today as a comedian, playing timid, mild-mannered roles. Today's audiences know him as the star of a Christmas-themed movie that has become a perennial: It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947). Moore plays a vagrant who occupies a millionaire's mansion—without the millionaire's knowledge ...
At a time when the average Hollywood picture cost about $800,000 (and the average Monogram picture cost about $90,000), Allied Artists' first release, the Christmas-themed comedy It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), cost more than $1,200,000. [7] It was rewarded with an estimated $1.8 million boxoffice return. [8]
April 19 – Monogram Pictures release their first film under their Allied Artists banner, It Happened on Fifth Avenue. May 22 – Great Expectations is premiered in New York. August 31 – The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of ...
The Devil on Wheels (1947) as Jeff Clark; It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) as Young man in barracks (uncredited) Robin Hood of Texas (1947) as Duke Mantel; The Return of the Whistler (1948) as Charlie Barkley; King of the Gamblers (1948) as 'Speed' Lacey; Daredevils of the Clouds (1948) as Johnny Martin; Harpoon (1948) as Red Dorsett Jr.
Storm starred in a number of films, including the romantic comedies G.I. Honeymoon (1945) and It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), the Western Stampede (1949), and the 1950 film-noir dramas The Underworld Story and Between Midnight and Dawn. U.S. audiences warmed to Storm and her fan mail increased.
Fifth Avenue, New York, by American impressionist Colin Campbell Cooper, 1913. brandstaetter images - Getty Images "Fifth Avenue is layered, revealing disparate moments in time, the old buffeted ...
By the early 1940s, he was appearing regularly in films such as: The Male Animal (1942), A Guy Named Joe (1943), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), You Came Along (1945), Without Reservations (1946), It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), Romance on the High Seas (1948), My Friend Irma (1949), and Jumping Jacks (1952). In 1946, exhibitors voted him ...