O. Henry's Full House

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

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  Henry Hathaway
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  Henry King
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  Howard Hawks
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  Henry Koster
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  Jean Negulesco

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  Fred Allen
  Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
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  Anne Baxter
  Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  David Wayne
  Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
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  Jeanne Crain
  Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
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  Farley Granger
  Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
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  Richard Widmark
  Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
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  Charles Laughton
  Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
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  Oscar Levant
  William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
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  Marilyn Monroe
  Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
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  Jean Peters
  Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  Gregory Ratoff
  Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  Dale Robertson
  Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")
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  Lee Aaker
  J.B. Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
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  Richard Rober
  Chief of Detectives (segment "The Clarion Call")
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  Fred Kelsey
  Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
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  Richard Garrick
  Doctor (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  John Steinbeck
  Narrator
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  Kathleen Freeman
  Mrs. Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (uncredited)
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  Irving Bacon
  Ebeneezer Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (uncredited)
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  William Vedder
  Judge (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited)