Just Around the Corner

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Nov 11 1938 G 1h 10m
Comedy, Drama, Music

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Plot

Penny Hale is the daughter of Jeff Hale, a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man in an apartment building, in which his girlfriend Lola lives in the penthouse. Shirley, always positive and happy refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner. She makes friends with an eccentric, grumpy old man, Samuel G. Henshaw, who turns out to be a millionaire and backs her father's engineering plans.

Written by

Ethel Hill, J.P. McEvoy, Darrell Ware

Directed by

Irving Cummings

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
715
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA