{"id":32359,"date":"2021-09-01T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32359"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:24:54","slug":"it-happened-on-fifth-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/it-happened-on-fifth-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"It Happened on Fifth Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 1947 is remembered in Christmas<\/a> film history as the year Miracle on 34th<\/sup> Street<\/em> came out. But in April of that year another yuletide movie came out that did pretty well at the box office \u2013 a movie called It Happened on Fifth Avenue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It Happened on Fifth Avenue<\/em> is the convoluted tale of Aloysius T. McKeever, a goldened-hearted drifter who has made it his winter routine to take up his residence in the home of the second richest man in the world, who bails from New York to Virginia as soon as the snow flies.<\/p>\n

McKeever hooks up with other individuals who are likewise down on their luck and, curiously, all are connected in odd ways to the Michael O\u2019Connor, owner of the empty mansion.<\/p>\n

One such individual he connects with is O\u2019Connor\u2019s runaway daughter, Trudy. She is in love<\/a> with one of the other characters in the film but does not want to win his love<\/a> through her father\u2019s wealth. So she plays the part of being young and poor while convincing her father to crash the scene by pretending to be a bum.<\/p>\n

So, what we have is a drifter playing a rich man while the rich man plays a drifter. (Following all this?) This comedy takes a variety of comedic and smaltzy turns typical of the 1940s with Christmas<\/a> as a backdrop.<\/p>\n

All of these characters find themselves together on Christmas<\/a> Eve in this ritzy home as things come to a head:<\/p>\n

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