

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Directed by Charles Vidor
User score
2 votes
Released
October 31, 1941
1h 34m
English

Fred MacMurray
Victor Ballard

Mary Martin
Alexandra Curtis

Robert Preston
Paul Bryson, Jr.

Akim Tamiroff
Stefan Janowski

Lynne Overman
Sam

Eric Blore
Vivian

Fuzzy Knight
Gus Nelson

Cecil Kellaway
Shipboard Host

Oliver Blake
Bender

Edward McNamara
Brody

Eva Gabor
(uncredited)

Iris Adrian
Toots O'Day (uncredited)

John Bagni
The Dip (uncredited)
Nicholas Bela
Hungarian Father (uncredited)

Monte Blue
McAuliffe (uncredited)

Tommy Bond
Willie (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley
Spectator (uncredited)

Ethel Clayton
(uncredited)

Chester Clute
Mr. Cobbler (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin
Burt (uncredited)