Main Cast: June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Paar
Release Year: 1951
Country: US
Run Time: 84 minutes
Plot
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
Leatrice Joy - Eadie Gaynor; Henry Kulky - George Thompson; Marie Blake - Mrs. Quigg; Patricia Miller - Florence; Maude Wallace - Mrs. Arnold; Joe Ploski - Mr. Hansen; Martha Wentworth - Mrs. Thompson; Faire Binney - Mrs. Frazier; Caryl Lincoln - Mrs. McNab; Michael Ross - Mr. McNab; Bob Jellison - Mr. Fain; John Costello - Postman; Charles Calvert - Mr. Knowland; Jack Daly - Mr. Clark; Ray Montgomery - Mr. Gray; Florence Auer - Mrs. Braddock; Edna Holland - Mrs. Engstrand; Alvin Hammer - Glazier; Elizabeth Slifer - Mrs. Healy; Clifton Young - Meter Reader; Tony DeMario - Wine Steward
Credit
George Patrick - Art Director, Lyle Wheeler - Art Director, Joseph Newman - Director, J. Watson Webb, Jr. - Editor, Cyril Mockridge - Composer (Music Score), Lionel Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Lloyd Ahern Sr. - Cinematographer, Jules Buck - Producer, I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter, Scott Corbett - Book Author
The post-World War II comedy featured an early supporting role for Monroe. It was one of the few films Paar made prior to his television career, and the last film appearance by Fay, who had been a popular stage comedian in the 1920's and revived his career starring on the long-running Broadway comedy Harvey. It was also the last appearance by silent star Leatrice Joy.
