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The Girl Next Door (1953) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 13, 1953

Original Title:
The Girl Next Door

Genres:
Comedy | Music | Romance

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 92

Something new under the Musical Sun!

Overview from TheMovieDB

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.

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Production

Animation:
T. Hee

Animation Director:
Robert Cannon

Art Direction:
Lyle R. Wheeler
Joseph C. Wright

Choreographer:
Richard Barstow

Costume Design:
Travilla

Director:
Richard Sale

Director of Photography:
Leon Shamroy

Editor:
Robert L. Simpson

Lyricist:
Mack Gordon

Makeup Artist:
Ben Nye

Music:
Cyril J. Mockridge

Music Director:
Lionel Newman

Orchestrator:
Earle Hagen

Producer:
Robert Bassler

Screenplay:
Isobel Lennart

Set Decoration:
Thomas Little
Claude E. Carpenter

Songs:
Josef Myrow

Sound:
Roger Heman Sr.

Special Effects:
Ray Kellogg

Story:
Leslie Bush-Fekete
Mary Helen Fay

Vocal Coach:
Ken Darby
Eliot Daniel

Wardrobe Designer:
Charles LeMaire

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