The Luck of the Irish is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster, and starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter.[1] The film was based on the 1948 novel There Was a Little Man by Guy Pearce Jones and Constance Bridges Jones.
The Luck of the Irish | |
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Directed by | Henry Koster |
Written by | Philip Dunne |
Produced by | Fred Kohlmar |
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Cinematography | Joseph LaShelle |
Edited by | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
Music by | Cyril Mockridge |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Stephen Fitzgerald, a newspaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and beautiful young Nora, while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiancée Frances, and her wealthy father David C. Augur in the midst of a political campaign in New York, he finds that the leprechaun and the young woman are now in the big city as well. Stephen is torn between the wealth he might enjoy in New York or returning to his roots in Ireland.
The Luck of the Irish was presented on Lux Radio Theatre on CBS December 27, 1948. The adaptation starred Dana Andrews, Baxter, Kellaway, and Stanley Holloway.[3]
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