FREE Movie: It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Sponsored by Liberty Tax Service in Greenfield, kick off the season right with a FREE showing of the 1947 classic It Happened on Fifth Avenue starring Don DeFore (Ozzie & Harriet), Ann Harding (Holiday) and Charles Ruggles (Parent Trap).

Every winter, Michael J. O’Connor (Ruggles), the second richest man in the world, vacates his 5th Avenue mansion for his winter home in warmer climes. Every winter, Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a homeless man, and his dog moves into vacated mansions. This particular winter, McKeever meets Jim Bullock (DeFore), an army veteran who has recently been evicted from his apartment and offers to share the mansion with him. It’s not long before the mansion has a few more guests, including two of Jim’s army buddies and their wives and children; runaway heiress Trudy Connor (Fale Storm); her mother and even Michael J. O’Connor, himself.