Directed by:
Joseph PevneyCinematography:
Russell MettyComposer:
Herman SteinCast:
Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Frank McHugh, Edgar Buchanan, Jane Darwell, Willard Waterman, Gladys George, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Weaver, Richard Eyer (more)Plots(1)
Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of Loretta Young. As radiantly beautiful at 40 as she'd been as a teen-aged ingenue, Young plays Jane McAvoy, the pregnant wife of big-city newspaper reporter Bob McAvoy (John Forsythe). Tired of the urban rat race, Bob moves to a small California town and assumes ownership of a just-getting-by weekly paper. It's a hand-to-mouth existence for the first few editions, and the situation isn't remedied by the cloistered, resentful behavior of the local citizenry. The outcome of the plot hinges on a publicity stunt engineered by Bob: an attempt to artificially create rain for the drought-ridden community. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
John Forsythe
USA
Best movies:
In Cold Blood (1967)
...And Justice for All (1979)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Frank McHugh
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Dodge City (1939)
Edgar Buchanan
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Jane Darwell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Caged (1950)
Willard Waterman
USA
Best movies:
The Apartment (1960)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Gladys George
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Detective Story (1951)
Sylvia Syms
UK
Best movies:
Shirley Valentine (1989)
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) (TV movie)
The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
Dennis Weaver
USA
Best movies:
Touch of Evil (1958)
Duel (1971) (TV movie)
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
Richard Eyer
USA
Best movies:
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Fort Dobbs (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Eddy Waller
USA
Best movies:
Woman on the Run (1950)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Regis Toomey
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Jack Mower
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Gregg Palmer
USA
Best movies:
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972)
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Paul Brinegar
USA
Best movies:
Maverick (1994)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Donald Kerr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Country (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
To Each His Own (1946)
Christopher Olsen
USA
Best movies:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Edward Earle
Canada
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Jimmy Conlin
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)