It's On My List

39 - It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)


Listen Later

I would like to think that you are all my friends, for to be without friends is a serious form of poverty.

Aloysius T. McKeever, It Happened on 5th Avenue

FIRST TIME VIEWERS:  ALISA, ANDREW, BETHANY, CHERYL, JOE

The holidays are upon us and it’s time for the movies we all know and love and have watched a hundred times. But, for our purposes, those won’t do. We searched high and low for a holiday film none of us had ever seen before. We found it in director/producer Roy Del Ruth’s 1947 romantic comedy, It Happened on 5th Avenue.

Can a lesser-known winter-time movie be any good? Is there a reason this film didn’t become a holiday classic? Is it a screwball comedy, a romance, a social commentary, a musical or all of the above? Could this actually be a Scrooge story in disguise? Does it’s two hour run-time make sense? And just how romantic is it to shoot holes in a wall with a shotgun? Join us in the O’Connor mansion as we try It Happened on 5th Avenue on for size.

Click here to listen to Episode 39: It Happened on 5th Avenue.

Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, so you never miss an episode!

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

It's On My ListBy IOML

  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4

4.4

13 ratings