The Girl Next Door (1953)
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This lightweight 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical stars Dan Dailey as Bill Carter, a widowed comic strip illustrator and June Haver as Jeannie, the title character, a glamorous Broadway star. When next-door-neighbors Bill and Jeannie fall in love, Bill's son Joe (Billy Gray) seethes with… More This lightweight 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical stars Dan Dailey as Bill Carter, a widowed comic strip illustrator and June Haver as Jeannie, the title character, a glamorous Broadway star. When next-door-neighbors Bill and Jeannie fall in love, Bill's son Joe (Billy Gray) seethes with resentment. Fortunately, Joe's schoolmate (and erstwhile sweetheart) Kitty (Mary Jane Saunders) convinces the boy that the world would be a sorry place without couples, using Noah's Ark as an example. This provides the cue for an extended animated cartoon sequence, courtesy of UPA Studios (then under contract to Columbia: Fox's house cartoonists at Terrytoons weren't quite up to the assignment). Naturally, the film finds time for a few engaging song-and-dance interludes, performed by Dailey and Haver. What really makes The Girl Next Door click is the unforced camaraderie between Dan Dailey and little Billy Gray. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Richard Sale
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 13, 1953 Wide
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox
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Cast
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Dan Dailey
as Bill Carter
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June Haver
as Jeannie
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Dennis Day
as Reed Appleton
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Cara Williams
as Rosie
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Natalie Schafer
as Evelyn
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Clinton Sundberg
as Samuels
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Hayden Rorke
as Fields
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Mary Jane Saunders
as Kitty
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Lynn Wilde
as Peggy
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Mona Knox
as Smitty
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Beverly Thompson
as Susie
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Greg Sherwood
as Franny
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Michael Ross
as O'Toole
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Herb Vigran
as Sergeant
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Charles Wagenheim
as Junkman
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Don Kohler
as Customs Official
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Robert Carraher
as Policeman
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Billy Gray
as Joe Carter
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May Wynn
as Mitzi
