So You Want an Apartment

Part of So You Want... Collection

1948•11m•5.0/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.0/10(5)

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Richard L. Bare Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

George O'Hanlon

George O'Hanlon

Joe McDoakes

Art Gilmore

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Creighton Hale

Creighton Hale

Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)

Jane Harker

Jane Harker

Alice McDoakes (uncredited)

Fred Kelsey

Fred Kelsey

Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)

Mike Lally

Mike Lally

Clerk (uncredited)

Jack Lomas

Man in Cramped Bed (uncredited)

Charles Marsh

Shaymus O'Shaymus (uncredited)

Paul Panzer

Paul Panzer

Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)

Ted Stanhope

Ted Stanhope

J. Phineas McNasty (uncredited)

Clifton Young

Clifton Young

Homer Hotbox (uncredited)

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