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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]
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. Parole, Inc. (1948) as Duke Vigili
Ruggles is best remembered today as the big-game hunter in Bringing Up Baby and billionaire Michael J. "Mike" O'Connor in It Happened on Fifth Avenue. In 1944, he had a summer radio series, The Charlie Ruggles Show on CBS. [6] In 1949, Ruggles halted his film career to return to the stage and to move into television.
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 ...
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 ...
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