Film

The Girl Next Door

1953 · 1h 32m · Comedy · Music · Romance

Something new under the Musical Sun!

IMDb

6.4

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.

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

Clinton Sundberg

Samuels the butler

Hayden Rorke

Henry Fields

Mary Jane Saunders

Kitty

• Richard SaleDirector
• Isobel LennartScreenplay
• Leslie Bush-FeketeStory
• Mary Helen FayStory
• Robert BasslerProducer
• Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
• Robert L. SimpsonEditor

Release date

May 13, 1953

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Comedy, Music, Romance

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