17 Oct Apartment for Peggy
Apartment for Peggy, post-WWII movie starring Jeanne Crain, William Holden and Edmund Gwenn
(1948) A war veteran attending college on the GI bill and his pregnant wife Peggy are having a hard time finding a place to live. Peggy meets a retired professor who is having problems of his own, and that is where the story begins.
Because of the title I assumed this would be a light weight movie and I almost didn’t watch it. But William Holden was the WWII veteran so I forged ahead. He was only thirty years old and looked great. In 1948 he had been in plenty of movies but few I recognize. Sunset Boulevard came in 1950; Stalag 17 in 1953.
It was not Holden however but Jeanne Craine and Edmund Gwenn who kept me transfixed. How did Jeanne remember all those lines? And you would know Edmund immediately as Santa in Miracle on 34th Street. That movie and this one were both written and directed by the same person, George Seaton.
I couldn’t help but think of my parents coming back to the states when the war was over. They did find an apartment but they had to “borrow” a better mattress from the room across the hall. My Dad couldn’t afford to go back to finish getting his masters’ degree because he needed money immediately.
My mother was pregnant and I was born just a few months later. Maybe because the issues sounded so familiar I marked Apartment for Peggy as one of my favorites.
Apartment For Peggy at amazon.com
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