It Happens Every Thursday

It Happens Every Thursday

80 mins | Comedy | April 22, 1953

New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.

It Happens Every Thursday

80 mins | Comedy | April 22, 1953

It Happens Every Thursday
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Universal International Pictures
Original title It Happens Every Thursday
Directors Frank Shaw, Joseph Pevney
Writers Jane S. McIlvaine, Barney Slater, Dane Lussier, Leonard Praskins

Cast

Loretta Young

as Jane MacAvoy

John Forsythe

as Bob MacAvoy

Frank McHugh

as Fred Hawley

Edgar Buchanan

as Jake

Gregg Palmer

as Chet Dunne

Harvey Grant

as Steve MacAvoy

Jane Darwell

as Mrs. Spatch

Willard Waterman

as Myron Trout

Jimmy Conlin

as Matthew

Regis Toomey

as Mayor Hull

Gladys George

as Mrs. Holmes

Kathryn Card

as Mrs. Dow

Edward Clark

as Homer

Eddy Waller

as James Bartlett