Apartment for Peggy

Apartment for Peggy

NR 1948 · 96 min · ★ 8.2 · Drama, Comedy

Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.

Directed by George Seaton · Written by George Seaton

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