The Girl Next Door (1953 film)

This was June Haver's last film appearance. Haver had gained fame in the mid-to-late 1940s as a musical star for Fox; she starred in films like The Dolly Sisters, Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Where Do We Go from Here?, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, Look for the Silver Lining, and I'll Get By. Haver departed from films to join a convent in 1952, but left the convent six months later and married actor Fred MacMurray.

When released, The Girl Next Door drew mixed press reviews; it did moderately well at the box-office.

A popular performer, Jeannie Laird decides to buy her first house and celebrate with a big party. The guests' enjoyment is interfered with by the happenings at the home of the next door neighbor, Bill Carter.

Carter is a comic-strip artist. He prides himself on every story he tells being true to life, including that of 10-year-old son Joey, whom he is raising alone. But when a relationship blossoms between Bill and Jeannie after a shaky start, a neglected Joey ends up blabbing to Bill's bosses that the comic strip's adventures have become far more fiction than fact.

• Dan Dailey as Bill Carter
• June Haver as Jeannie Laird
• Dennis Day as Reed Appleton
• Billy Gray as Joey Carter
• Cara Williams as Rosie Green
• Natalie Schafer as Evelyn, the maid
• Clinton Sundberg as Samuels, the butler
• Hayden Rorke as Henry Fields
• Mary Jane Saunders as Kitty

• Dick, Bernard F. The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.

• The Girl Next Door at IMDb