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Chicken Every Sunday is a american film of genre Comedy directed by George Seaton released in USA on 18 january 1949 with Dan Dailey
Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
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Add to a movie listChicken Every Sunday is a 1949 American comedy film directed by George Seaton. The screenplay by Seaton and Valentine Davies is based on the 1944 play of the same title by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, which was based on the memoir by Rosemary Taylor.
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In Tucson, Arizona in 1910, Emily Hefferen visits attorney Robert Hart to file for divorce from her husband Jim, citing his lack of support as grounds. When Hart expresses surprise, given the local hotel, laundry, and dairy bear the Heffernen name, suggesting the family is wealthy, Emily describes her family life for the past twenty years.Actors
Dan Dailey
(Jim Hefferen)
Celeste Holm
(Emily Hefferen)
Alan Young
(Geoffrey Lawson)
Colleen Townsend
(Rosemary Hefferen)
Natalie Wood
(Ruth Hefferen)
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