It Happens Every Thursday *** (1953, Loretta Young, John Forsythe) – Classic Movie Review 11,948

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1953 comedy film It Happens Every Thursday stars Loretta Young and John Forsythe as married newspaper owners Jane and Bob McAvoy, fresh from the city, who upset their new small town with their all-out drive to sell more copies of a Californian weekly.

It Happens Every Thursday is a well-scripted, enjoyable, good-hearted little comedy, with two pleasing performances from the pleasant stars, and they are backed by neat, amusing turns by venerable support players.

It is based on a novel by Jane S McIlvaine.

It is Young’s last cinema film, though she played in two TV movies in the 80s: Christmas Eve (86), Lady in the Corner. It is Gladys George’s last film, too: she died of a brain haemorrhage the following year, aged 54.

Also in the cast are Jimmy Conlin, Frank McHugh, Edgar Buchanan, Jane Darwell, Dennis Weaver, Gregg Palmer, Harvey Grant, Willard Waterman, Regis Toomey, Gladys George as Mrs Lucinda Holmes, Kathryn Card, Edward Clark, Eddy Waller, Madge Blake, Edward Earle, Edith Evanson, Richard Eyer, Francis Ford, Walter Lawrence, Rudy Lee, Lauren Perreau, Francis Pierlot, George Ramsey, Paul Brinegar as Mr Sweetzer the hotel clerk, Gail Bonney as Miss Newton and Sylvia Syms (1916–1992).

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