Movie: So You Want an Apartment

Top 10 Billed Cast

George O'Hanlon
George O'Hanlon

Joe McDoakes

Art Gilmore
Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Creighton Hale
Creighton Hale

Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)

Jane Harker
Jane Harker

Alice McDoakes (uncredited)

Fred Kelsey
Fred Kelsey

Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)

Mike Lally
Mike Lally

Clerk (uncredited)

Jack Lomas
Jack Lomas

Man in Cramped Bed (uncredited)

Charles Marsh
Charles Marsh

Shaymus O'Shaymus (uncredited)

Paul Panzer
Paul Panzer

Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)

Ted Stanhope
Ted Stanhope

J. Phineas McNasty (uncredited)

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    Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

  • Release Date

    1948-01-03

  • Average

    4

  • Rating:

    2.0 starts
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  • Languages:

    English

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