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Room for One More (1952)

Room for One More poster
Directed by
Norman Taurog
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 52 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple already raising three children decide to take in a troubled boy from a state home. They also adopt a girl with a physical disability. The film shows the everyday chaos and love that comes with expanding their family.

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What happens

Room for One More is a 1952 American family comedy-drama film directed by Norman Taurog, produced by Henry Blanke, and starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake. The screenplay, written by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson, was based on the 1950 autobiography of the same name by Anna Perrott Rose. It was the second and last film that the then-married Grant and Drake made together. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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