''It's a Small World'' is a 1950 American
film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
directed by
William Castle
William Castle (born William Schloss Jr.; April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Orphaned at 11, Castle dropped out of high school at 15 to work in the theater. He came to the attenti ...
. The film was released on DVD in 2010.
Plot
Cast
*Paul Dale as Harry Musk
*Lorraine Miller as Buttons
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Will Geer
Will Geer (born William Aughe Ghere; March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In Ca ...
as William Musk – Father
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Nina Koshetz
Nina Koshetz ( uk, Ніна Павлівна Кошиць; russian: Нина Павловна Кошиц; née Poray-Koshetz ( :uk:Порай-Кошиці); 30 December 1891 – 14 May 1965) was a Russian-Ukrainian, later American opera soprano, ...
as Rose Ferris
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Steve Brodie as Charlie
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Anne Sholter as Dolly Burke
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Todd Karns
Roscoe Todd Karns (January 15, 1921 – February 5, 2000) was an American actor. He is perhaps best remembered for playing George Bailey's younger brother, Harry Bailey, in the 1946 film ''It's a Wonderful Life''.
Early life
Karns was the so ...
as Sam
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Margaret Field
Margaret Field (née Morlan; May 10, 1922 – November 6, 2011) was an American film actress usually billed as Maggie Mahoney after her marriage to actor Jock Mahoney. The mother of actress Sally Field, she was best known for her work in two scie ...
as Janie at Age 16
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Shirley Mills
Shirley Olivia Mills (April 8, 1926 – March 31, 2010) was an American actress. She played the roles of the youngest daughter in ''The Grapes of Wrath'' and the title character in '' Child Bride''. In the latter, she is shown nude in a nude sw ...
as Susan Musk at Age 16 (as Shirley O. Mills)
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Thomas Browne Henry
Thomas Browne Henry (November 7, 1907 – June 30, 1980) was an American character actor known for many guest appearances on television and in films.
He was active with the Pasadena Community Playhouse and was the older brother of actor ...
as Jackson (as Tom Brown Henry)
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Harry Harvey as Town Doctor
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Paul E. Burns
Paul E. Burns (January 26, 1881 – May 17, 1967) was an American actor, who had a very lengthy career on film and television, although mostly in bit parts.
He played Ebenezer Hawkins in ''Son of Paleface'' (1952), Latitude Bucket in ''The Ro ...
as Italian Truck Farmer
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Jacqui Snyder as Susan Musk at Age 8
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Lora Lee Michel
Lora Lee Michel (born Virginia Joy Willeford, September 13, 1940) is an American former child actress. She appeared in several feature films during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1950, she was the focus of a cus ...
as Janie at Age 8
References
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1950 films
1950 comedy-drama films
American comedy-drama films
Films directed by William Castle
American black-and-white films
Films scored by Karl Hajos
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
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