Magic Town

Oct 7, 1947

1h 43m

★ 6.7

The guy with the dynamite heart meets the girl with the firecracker eyes!

Overview

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Rip Smith

James Stewart

Mary Peterman

Jane Wyman

Hoopendecker

Kent Smith

Ike

Ned Sparks

Lou Dicketts

Wallace Ford

Ed Weaver

Regis Toomey

Mrs. Weaver

Ann Doran

Mr. Twiddle

Donald Meek

Moody

E.J. Ballantine

Ma Peterman

Ann Shoemaker

Hank Nickleby

Mickey Kuhn

Nickleby

Howard Freeman

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