Love Nest (1951)
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Love Nest is a thoroughly likeable formula comedy with a most engaging cast. William Lundigan plays Jim Scott, an aspiring writer who, together with his wife Connie (June Haver), moves into the basement of an apartment building that they've bought. Scott's hopes to keep financially solvent are thwarted by the everyday travails of maintaining the building and ministering to the needs of the tenants. The episodic plotline settles on the activities of charming con artist Charley Patterson (Frank Fay), who targets tenant Eadie Gaynor (Leatrice Joy) as his latest victim. When Patterson is finally arrested, he generously offers to tell his life story to Scott, thereby launching the latter's writing career in earnest. Love Nest was frequently revived throughout the 1950s and 1960s because of the supporting-cast presence of future sex symbol Marilyn Monroe and TV talk host Jack Paar. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 84 mins
Complete Cast:
- June Haver - Connie Scott
- Frank Fay - Charley Patterson
- Jack Paar - Ed Forbes
- Henry Kulky - George Thompson
- Patricia Miller - Florence
- Joe Ploski - Mr. Hansen
- Faire Binney - Mrs. Frazier
- Michael Ross - Mr. McNab
- John Costello - Postman
- Jack Daly - Mr. Clark
- Florence Auer - Mrs. Braddock
- Alvin Hammer - Glazier
- Clifton Young - Meter Reader
- William Lundigan - Jim Scott
- Marilyn Monroe - Roberta Stevens
- Leatrice Joy - Eadie Gaynor
- Marie Blake - Mrs. Quigg
- Maude Wallace - Mrs. Arnold
- Martha Wentworth - Mrs. Thompson
- Caryl Lincoln - Mrs. McNab
- Bob Jellison - Mr. Fain
- Charles Calvert - Mr. Knowland
- Ray Montgomery - Mr. Gray
- Edna Holland - Mrs. Engstrand
- Tony DeMario - Wine Steward
- Elizabeth Slifer - Mrs. Healy
- Director(s):
- Joseph Newman
- Writer(s):
- I.A.L. Diamond
- Producer(s):
- Jules Buck
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