The Girl Next Door is a 1953

1953 in film

The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

 musical comedy film directed by Richard Sale

Richard Sale

Richard T. Sale is a journalist and novelist, best known for The Blackstone Rangers , a book-length investigative report on the Black P. Stone Rangers. He is also the author of Traitors : the worst acts of treason in American history from Benedict Arnold to Robert Hanssen .-References:...

, released by 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

, and, starred June Haver

June Haver

June Haver , was an American film actress. She is most well known as a popular star of 20th Century-Fox musicals in the late 1940s, most notably The Dolly Sisters with Betty Grable and John Payne and also for playing the 1920s Broadway actress Marilyn Miller in Look for the Silver Lining...

, Dan Dailey

Dan Dailey

Daniel James Dailey Jr. was an American dancer and actor.-Early life and career:Born in New York City on December 14, 1915, to James J. and Helen Dailey, both born in New York City. He appeared in a minstrel show when very young, and appeared in vaudeville before his Broadway debut in 1937 in...

, and Dennis Day

Dennis Day

Dennis Day born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio, television and film personality.-Early life:...

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The Girl Next Door, was June Haver's last film appearance. Haver had gained fame in the mid and late 1940s as a musical star for Fox; she starred in films like, Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Irish Eyes Are Smiling is a 1944 musical film which chronicles the life of popular Irish song composer Ernest R. Ball. The screenplay by Earl Baldwin and John Tucker Battle is based on a story by E. A. Ellington. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by Damon Runyon for 20th Century...

, Where Do We Go from Here?, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (film)

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is a 1947 musical film in Technicolor, directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring June Haver and Mark Stevens. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is a biograpical film about Joseph E. Howard, the writer of the popular song of the same title.-Plot:Set in the turn of the 20th...

, Look for the Silver Lining

Look for the Silver Lining (film)

Look for the Silver Lining is a 1949 film directed by David Butler. It stars June Haver and Ray Bolger. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1950.-Cast:*June Haver as Marilyn Miller*Ray Bolger as Jack Donahue*Gordon MacRae as Frank Carter...

, and I'll Get By

I'll Get By (film)

I'll Get By is a 1950 Technicolor musical directed by Richard Sale, and starring June Haver and William Lundigan.-Plot synopsis:This work follows themes explored in 1940's Tin Pan Alley, with updated characters and music...

. Haver departed from films to join a convent

Convent

A convent is either a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters, or nuns, or the building used by the community, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion...

 in 1952, but, left the convent six months later and married actor Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....

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When released The Girl Next Door, drew both good and bad press reviews; however, it would do moderately well at the box-office. Only over time has the film earned the popularity that is was first intended to.

Cast

• Dan Dailey
  Dan Dailey
  Daniel James Dailey Jr. was an American dancer and actor.-Early life and career:Born in New York City on December 14, 1915, to James J. and Helen Dailey, both born in New York City. He appeared in a minstrel show when very young, and appeared in vaudeville before his Broadway debut in 1937 in...
  
   as Bill Carter
• June Haver
  June Haver
  June Haver , was an American film actress. She is most well known as a popular star of 20th Century-Fox musicals in the late 1940s, most notably The Dolly Sisters with Betty Grable and John Payne and also for playing the 1920s Broadway actress Marilyn Miller in Look for the Silver Lining...
  
   as Jeannie Laird
• Dennis Day
  Dennis Day
  Dennis Day born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio, television and film personality.-Early life:...
  
   as Reed Appleton
• Billy Gray
  Billy Gray
  William Patrick "Billy" Gray was an English professional association footballer and manager who played initially as a winger....
  
   as Joe Carter
• Cara Williams
  Cara Williams
  Cara Williams is an American film and television actress.-Biography:Born as Bernice Kamiat to an Austrian emigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent, she began her screen acting career in 1941, and was initially billed as Bernice Kay...
  
   as Rosie Grren
• Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...
  
   as Evelyn, the maid
• Clinton Sundberg
  Clinton Sundberg
  Clinton Sundberg was a stage and film character actor.Sundberg was born in Appleton, Minnesota on December 7, with sources differing on his year of birth...
  
   as Samuels, the butler
• Hayden Rorke
  Hayden Rorke
  William Henry Rorke was an American actor best known for playing Col. Dr. Alfred E. Bellows on the hit 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.-Career:...
  
  as Henry Fields
• Mary Jane Saunders as Kitty