It Happens Every Thursday (1953)

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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of Loretta Young. As radiantly beautiful at 40 as she'd been as a teen-aged ingenue, Young plays Jane McAvoy, the pregnant wife of big-city newspaper reporter Bob McAvoy (John Forsythe).… More Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of Loretta Young. As radiantly beautiful at 40 as she'd been as a teen-aged ingenue, Young plays Jane McAvoy, the pregnant wife of big-city newspaper reporter Bob McAvoy (John Forsythe). Tired of the urban rat race, Bob moves to a small California town and assumes ownership of a just-getting-by weekly paper. It's a hand-to-mouth existence for the first few editions, and the situation isn't remedied by the cloistered, resentful behavior of the local citizenry. The outcome of the plot hinges on a publicity stunt engineered by Bob: an attempt to artificially create rain for the drought-ridden community. The well-chosen supporting cast of It Happens Every Thursday includes Edgar Buchanan, Jimmy Conlin, Willard Waterman, and in her last film, Gladys George. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.
Directed By: Joseph Pevney
Genres: Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Apr 22, 1953 Wide

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Cast

            Loretta Young as Jane MacAvoy

            John Forsythe as Bob MacAvoy

            Frank McHugh as Fred Hawley

            Edgar Buchanan as Jake

            Palmer Lee [Gregg Palmer] as Chet Dunne

            Harvey Grant as Steve MacAvoy

            Jane Darwell as Mrs. Spatch

            Willard Waterman as Myron Trout

            Jimmy Conlin as Matthew

            Regis Toomey as Mayor Hull

            Gladys George as Mrs. Holmes

            Kathryn Card as Mrs. Dow

            Edward Clark as Homer

            Eddy Waller as Bartlett

            Madge Blake as Clubwoman

            Edward Earle as Van Fleet

            Edith Evanson as Mrs. Peterson

            Richard Eyer as Stan

            Rudy Lee as Cub Scout

            Gregg Palmer as Chet Dunne

            Francis Pierlot as Loomis

            Sylvia Syms as Woman

            Dennis Weaver as President Jr. Chamber of Commerce

            Francis Ford as Old Gentleman

            George Ramsey as Vendor

            Walter Lawrence as Clerk
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