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The Girl Next Door (1953 film)

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The Girl Next Door
Directed byRichard Sale
Written byIsobel Lennart
Story byLeslie Bush-Fekete
Maria Fagyas
Produced byRobert Bassler
StarringJune Haver
Dan Dailey
Dennis Day
CinematographyLeon Shamroy
Edited byRobert L. Simpson
Music byLionel Newman
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • May 13, 1953 (1953-05-13)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.2 million (US)[1]

The Girl Next Door is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Richard Sale and starring June Haver, Dan Dailey, and Dennis Day. It was made and released by 20th Century Fox.

Plot

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A popular performer, Jeannie Laird decides to buy her first house and celebrate with a big party. The guests' enjoyment is interfered with by the happenings at the home of the next door neighbor, Bill Carter.

Carter is a comic-strip artist. He prides himself on every story he tells being true to life, including that of 10-year-old son Joey, whom he is raising alone. When a relationship blossoms between Bill and Jeannie after a shaky start, a neglected Joey ends up blabbing to Bill's bosses that the comic strip's adventures have become far more fiction than fact.

Cast

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Background

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This was June Haver's last film appearance. Haver had gained fame in the mid-to-late 1940s as a musical star for Fox; she starred in films like The Dolly Sisters, Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Where Do We Go from Here?, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, Look for the Silver Lining, and I'll Get By. Haver departed from films to join a convent in 1952, but left the convent six months later and married actor Fred MacMurray.

When released, The Girl Next Door drew mixed press reviews; it did moderately well at the box-office.

References

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  1. ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954

Bibliography

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  • Dick, Bernard F. The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
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